Verifying DMA on hard drives

"using_dma" below:

[root@myth ~]# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
acoustic 0 0 254 rw
address 0 0 2 rw
bios_cyl 65535 0 65535 rw
bios_head 16 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
current_speed 66 0 70 rw
failures 0 0 65535 rw
init_speed 12 0 70 rw
io_32bit 1 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
lun 0 0 7 rw
max_failures 1 0 65535 rw
multcount 16 0 16 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
number 0 0 3 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
unmaskirq 1 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw
wcache 1 0 1 rw