[ale] disabling DMA

[Christopher Fowler]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:31, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> I am using Suse 9.1.
> I enabled DMA for /dev/hdaX using Yast2
> DMA seems to be causing some problem that will not allow me to boot into X.
> 
> How can I disable it using the command line?

man hdparam

It is in sbin and you can run it from rc.local.  I think the correct
syntax would be /sbin/hdparam -d 0 /dev/hd<N>