hdparm - turning on DMA and other stuff for dd clone speed up
hdparm is for IDE drives and can not be used on SCSI drives (firewire included)


1.  hdparm /dev/hda will tell you what is on or off
2.  if you want to do a faster dd clone:
	hdparm -u 1 -c 1 -d 1 -m 16 /dev/hda

	*that will set unmaskirq (helps with interrupts), enable 32 bit mode, enable dma, and set 16 sectors per access

3.  test the stats
	hdparm -t -T /dev/hda