[ltp] SuSE 9.1 on T40

[Eben King]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Donald B. Altman wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Taylor Smith <tsmith@tsmithphotos.com> on Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:06:06 -0600
> 
> Hi Taylor,
> 
> This is a long shot...
> 
> When I installed SuSE 9.1 on my T42p, somehow I ended up with the HD
> DMA off.  That slowed my system waaaay down.  Try Yast/Hardware/
> IDE DMA mode and set it to agree with your drive.

"hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" might do it once, but dunno how you make it stick.  
Maybe add that command to some rc.* script.

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