Knoppix (Debian??) Dma question.

[Fabianx]

This is not exactly the old "My DMA is turned off - how do I turn it on" question, but one about who is in charge.

The /etc/hdparm.conf is an obvious place to control DMA and corresponds to other distros. But there is also a /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh that also has a DMA switch at the bottom for each drive.

Questions. Why two sets of switches? Who overrides who? Which one should be used and which one commented out? Googling so far has not explained the reason for having both.

Thanks

CptKrf

You want the hdparm.conf that is the official Debian way of doing it the bootmisc.sh is a hack to do it in Knoppix.

Argh,

why didn't tell you us to do that that way, earlier ?

We did it just that way, because we (or the original writer of the installer) did not know how to do it "the right way".

cu

Fabian

PS: Please add to the new page: Bugs/Installer I'll have there to sections with Solved and unsolved bugs as the installer is not just used with knoppix 3.4.