SOFTPAQ NUMBER: 16306 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: N/A TITLE: Compaq IDE hard disk parameter setting. LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: Drivers DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: ML330e OPERATING SYSTEM: Red Hat 7.0, Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.1 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITES: None EFFECTIVE DATE: 02/28/2001 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: SUPERSEDES: N/A DESCRIPTION: The Compaq ProLiant ML330e uses the CMD 649 IDE chipset. Support for this chipset is not explicitly present in Linux kernels before 2.4.1. Because of that, the IDE subsystem will run in PIO mode by default. This package installs a small shell script to turn on DMA mode on all ATA disk drives installed in the server at boot time. The script will be found as /etc/rc.d/init.d/cpqhdparm, with symlinks from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S01cpqhdparm and /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S01cpqhdparm. The script will be called at boot time as part of the normal initialization process. If you are running a 2.4.1 or later kernel you do not need this RPM. Enhancements/Fixes: HOW TO USE: 1. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is sp16306.tar.gz. 2. Type the following commands to extract the software: # tar xzvf sp16306.tar.gz [ENTER] The following files should be created cpqhdparm-1.0-2.i386.rpm readme.txt 3. Refer to readme.txt for instructions on installing the fix. Copyright 1989-2000, Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies