Re: Enable cd/dvd DMA

[Stephen Armstrong]

I have a new Dell Inspiron 9300 with a Sony (slim)
dvdwriter, the drive works great in windows thus I'll
guess the bios is ok and that the drive supports
DMA-but i'll check anyway. Anything else to try?

--- Kam Leo <kam.leo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 7/10/05, Scot L. Harris <webid(a)cfl.rr.com&gt; wrote:
>  > 
>  > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 21:25, Stephen Armstrong
>  wrote:
>  > > I'm trying to enable DMA (for hdc) using hdparm
>  as
>  > > root but when I tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc I get
>  the
>  > > error: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc not permitted
>  > 
>  > Check the bios options for the mode your cd/dvd
>  player is set for.
>  > 
>  > I have a mother board that this had to be set
>  correctly to allow hdparm
>  > to set the DMA mode.
>  > 
>  > --
>  > Scot L. Harris
>  > webid(a)cfl.rr.com
>  > 
>  
>  Not all CD/CD-RW drives support DMA.  I have 4X and
>  12X CD-RW drives
>  which only supports PIO.
>  
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