have u installed hdparm?
and turn it on at init?
>.^

lancelot

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed 2.6.11.10a following Grant Coady's mini-HOWTO on this list.
> Everything went OK, except I get the following error message at boot time:
>
> *****************
> Warning: the dma on your hard drive is turned off. This may really slow down
> the fsck process
> *****************
>
> What am I supposed to do now?
>
> Niki Kovacs