Re: Bus Mastering DMA w/Triton motherboards and Acer BIOS

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
01 Jul 1997 23:28:48 -0400

AndroSyn <androsyn@geocities.com> writes:

> I have a Acer Acros system with linux 2.1.43 and a Intel Triton
> chipset. Also in this system is the stock Acer BIOS. My question
> is, is it possible to enable bus mastering dma on these boards,
> even though the BIOS setup has no way to enable bus mastering??

You should be able to reconfigure it with hdparm(8).

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