enabling DMA on hard drives

[Matt Cahill]

  Hey folks,

    Thought I'd share a very succinct how-to that I saw posted on the
    Libranet forum yesterday.  Many people (of the non-tweak-monkey
    variety) may find that DMA isn't enabled when their Linux system
    accesses their hard drive(s).  The poster has listed the steps to
    enabling it (and thus increasing the Mb/sec of the drive).  If not
    enabled, the difference in performance could be substantial.

    Link:  http://forum.libranet.com/viewtopic.php?t=5489

    I'm sure there are many here who have either enabled this manually
    themselves, or who may have systems that have recognized and
    pre-configured DMA.  However, for those of us who haven't
    considered checking, it's not a bad thing to try.

    Note that Libranet is a Debian distro; replace apt-get with
    whatever automagic package management you may have if using a
    different Linux.

    Matt

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