How do I turn on DMA for ide-scsi DVD drives

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:04 -0800, spmirowski wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:36 -0800
> > spmirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Back when Fedora handled disc drives as ide, I would use hdparm to turn 
> >> on DMA.  Now that Fedora 8 seems to run them as SCSI devices, hdparm 
> >> can't tell them to turn on DMA.  Any ideas how to get them blazing fast 
> >> again?
> >>     
> >
> > Its always done automatically by libata.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >   
> Thanks,
> 
> It would appear the issue wasn't DMA, but nvidia-config omitted 
> something from my xorg.conf that allows hardware acceleration for XVideo.

... and that was? Inquiring minds would like to know! :) Ric

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