2.2 kernels and IDE disk access

[Charles C. Bennett, Jr.]

> I discovered yesterday that the 2.2 kernels are set up not to use DMA to
> drive your disks by default. When I upgrade, one of the first things I do is

I have lines in my rc.sysinit that enable DMA using hdparm commands.
They also tweak the read-ahead block size and enable 32-bit transfers.

As for P-II support, the version of Red Hat shipped on VA boxes is
recompiled for P-II.  I think Mandrake Linux does the same.

ccb


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