[ale] Disabling DMA at boot.

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Mon Mar 24 14:25:23 EST 2003


Chris,

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:03, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I'm trying the below lilo command line parameters to disable DMA on hda.
> 
> Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=outpost ro root=107 ramdisk=32768
> hda=nodma

	According to the code, the only 'nodma' string it'll recognize is:

	ide=nodma

which, of course, turns off DMA to ALL drives.

	Beyond that, you can only change the code, as it looks at the drive
capabilities, and if it supports DMA, then it'll use it.

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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