DMA

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 17:10 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:

> On 5/24/06, Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > If DMA is not enabled by default on your machine (how did you find out
> > whether it was or wasn't, btw?)
> 
> The normal way to find out that DMA is not enabled is to try playing a
> DVD and finding that "it is jerky". The other way is to try burning a
> DVD and discover that you keep getting buffer underruns.
> 
Personally I prefer just running "hdparm -d", it's so much easier.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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