Topic: Old or New?

[Mike Smith]

What is the best configureation for E-Smith when it ask the 2 types of speed things?  One is normal the other says (For older PC) more stable something.  Which should it be on?

[z00100]

You mean the hard drive optimizations.

Basically if you have a UDMA33 controller and above, then set it to high performance.

[Mike Smith]

Its one of the last configureation screens in the configure this e-smith machine thing.  Is that all it does?

[Dan Brown]

What does the manual say it does?  Hint: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/configmisc.html

For that matter, what does the screen itself say?

[Timothée Bastin]

Yes, that's all it does. It's only enabling DMA (as it is called in windooz). But be sure you'r harddisk and/or motherboard is supporting this otherwise your server won't work and probably will hang or crash when you finish setup and want to reboot.

This is what happend to mee when I enabled this option on a board that didn't support DMA. E-smith wanted to restart but hang at the hdparm section which is the DMA support.

Timothée