You can disable or enable DMA for specific ide ports, by creating a file called harddiskX (where X=1 for hda, X=2 for hdb, and so on), inside /etc, based on the general ide configuration harddisks (within the same dir), you can see on harddisks the line # USING_DMA=1, to enable simply delete the #, to disable delete it and change to 0 Hope this helps. -- Saludos / Best Regards Sergio Del Valle
