DMA

[Sean Hammond]

On 5/23/06, Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:34 +0100, Sean Hammond wrote:
>
> > I often find that DMA is disabled by default on machines running
> > Ubuntu, and that in order to (for example) play DVDs smoothly I have
> > to enable it following these instructions:
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DMA
> >
> If DMA is disabled by default, then you're running the risk of crashing
> or damaging your machine by enabling it.

So I've heard. Does this mean that Windows enables DMA by default on
many such systems and runs the risk, whereas Ubuntu/Debian/(Linux?)
are more cautious?