LPI Exam Questions

Which program can be used to adjust the DMA settings of an IDE hard drive?

CORRECT TEXT
Which program can be used to adjust the DMA settings of an IDE hard drive? Please enter it
without path, parameters or arguments

Answer: hdparm

Explanation:

From the man pages:
hdparm – get/set SATA/IDE device parameters
-d Disable/enable the “using_dma” flag for this drive.