On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:36 -0800 spmirowski <spmirowski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Back when Fedora handled disc drives as ide, I would use hdparm to turn > on DMA. Now that Fedora 8 seems to run them as SCSI devices, hdparm > can't tell them to turn on DMA. Any ideas how to get them blazing fast > again? Its always done automatically by libata. Alan