[mythtv] hdparm question

[Ryan A. Carris]

Excellent.  That worked.  Thanks


Dwaine Garden wrote:
> Ryan A. Carris wrote:
>> Question, and I think this will help a lot of people:  How do I get 
>> 32bit access and DMA set at boot?
>>

> 
> Create the following files in /etc/sysconfig/:
> 
> harddiskhda
> harddiskhdb
> harddiskhdc
>     etc...
>    etc....
> 
> Create one file for each harddrive.   Here is an example of one file:
> 
> # These options are used to tune the hard drives -
> # read the hdparm man page for more information
> 
> # Set this to 1 to enable DMA. This might cause some
> # data corruption on certain chipset / hard drive
> # combinations. This is used with the "-d" option
> 
> USE_DMA=1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thats it.  you can add whatever parameters to the file that hdparm will 
> except.
> 
> Dwaine.
>