On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:52, Alan wrote: > > > hdparm -d1 <device> > > > > I've yet to run across any SATA controllers which allow one to enable > > or disable DMA support via hdparm. > > The SATA drivers always enable DMA when possible. A dmesg is really > needed to see what is going on. Should I grep for something specific or just attach an output after a bootup of dmesg?