.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "CONFIG_DRIVE_FOR_DMA" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME config_drive_for_dma \- attempt to activate IDE DMA .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int config_drive_for_dma (ide_drive_t * \fIdrive\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIdrive\fB\fR the drive to place in DMA mode .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP If the drive supports at least mode 2 DMA or UDMA of any kind then attempt to place it into DMA mode. Drives that are known to support DMA but predate the DMA properties or that are known to have DMA handling bugs are also set up appropriately based on the good/bad drive lists.