Turn on DMA mode on a hard drive
DMA
Direct memory access (DMA) allows certain hardware subsystems within the computer to access system memory for reading and/or writing independently of the central processing unit. It uses a procedure called cycle stealing, where the central processor memory access cycles are delayed for very short times to intersperse DMA controller memory access cycles. DMA is used for transferring data between the local memory and the main memory.
You can turn On DMA mode on a hard drive
You can check whether DMA is enabled on a hard drive for the IDE harddrive.
If DMA is on, the output should contain the following line,
If it is off you can enable it as follows,
This will toggle the value of "using_dma" (It will turn off the value of "using_dma" if it was already on).
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Direct memory access (DMA) allows certain hardware subsystems within the computer to access system memory for reading and/or writing independently of the central processing unit. It uses a procedure called cycle stealing, where the central processor memory access cycles are delayed for very short times to intersperse DMA controller memory access cycles. DMA is used for transferring data between the local memory and the main memory.
You can turn On DMA mode on a hard drive
You can check whether DMA is enabled on a hard drive for the IDE harddrive.
hdparm -iv /dev/hd
If DMA is on, the output should contain the following line,
using_dma = 1 (on)
If it is off you can enable it as follows,
hdparm -d /dev/hd
This will toggle the value of "using_dma" (It will turn off the value of "using_dma" if it was already on).
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