Topic: PIO or DMA for RAID

[dave]

Hoow do I make both drives on a soft raid use PIO or DMA. My problem is one drive is PIO and the other is DMA

[Herculito]

Hi,

You should use the hdparm command to enable DMA on both drives (see http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=7312.msg26712#msg26712 or man hdparm), make sure that both drives are configured as master (no slave devices such as IDE cd-roms etc if you have a PIO device on the same IDE channel it may force you hard drive to operate in PIO mode even if it is a DMA ready drive)

Hope this helps

Grtz,

Herc