[CLUE-Tech] RH 7.2 DMA Woes

[Adam_Bultman at gmx.net]

> 
> You can set/unset DMA at runtime with "/sbin/hdparm" and the kernel
> parameters for DMA on IDE are described in:
> 
>    /usr/src/linux-$VER/Documentation/ide.txt
> 
Isn't there a danger of disk corruption? Does it (hdparm) speed things up
that much?


> > And, GRUB rocks for those of you who haven't tried it!
> 
A little to "mealy" for my taste.

I'm still a fan of good ol' text based lilo.  I installed RH7.1 on one of my
machines, and I don't like the little selection screen.  When I ran
mandrake, GRUB was okay, but I'm a fan of text.

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