DMA

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 18:32 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:

> Op wo, 24-05-2006 te 10:14 +0100, schreef 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. 
> 
> What John meant is how normal users find out DMA is not enabled.  It's
> also the trigger for support people to ask users to run "hdparm -d".
> 
_NORMAL_ users never find out that DMA is not enabled, because normal
users haven't the faintest clue what a DMA is or why they would want
one.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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