Even the much vaunted windows rarely enables DMA by default.<br>
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Corey<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On Apr 9, 2005 9:12 AM, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Zimmerman</b> <<a href="mailto:mdz@ubuntu.com">mdz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 06:02:50PM +0200, M.Ali Hussain wrote:<br><br>> why is not dma on by default in hoary with the new 16x dvd writer ?<br><br>Because it causes many CD/DVD devices to fail to function, or even crash the<br>system, if it is enabled unconditionally, and we currently have no means to<br>determine whether it is safe to enable in a particular circumstance.<br><br><a href="https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3672">https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3672</a><br><br>--<br> - mdz<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>