dma and older hard disks

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:32:08 +1000, Roman Kirillov <sigizmund at gmail.com>  
wrote:
>> you can also manually set the dma mode - though for the life of me I  
>> can't
>> recall how off the top of my head...
>> Oh. Now I know... atacontrol on FreeBSD... forget I said anything... :-)
>
> Mate, may be this will help you:
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=30949
>
> BTW google is our friend :-)

Yes. yes it is...

so the indication from that thread seems to be that
the ubuntu (linux) equivalent of the *BSD command
atacontrol
is
hdparam

more or less.


-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Chance favours the prepared mind