Re: SUSE and UDMA

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:46:43AM +0100, John Wilkinson wrote:
> a) How do I turn on the UDMA in Linux?

Check out the UDMA mini-howto on linuxhq:

http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-1.html

The basic idea, though, is to use hdparm. Using the latest version of
it and assuming /dev/hda is the your UDMA disk, do a

hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

> b) How do I see the startup messages so I can read them?
>

dmesg shows you most of them. Other than that, you can trawl through
your /var/log files.

Alastair.

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