DMA

[Jan Claeys]

Op do, 25-05-2006 te 08:48 +0100, schreef Scott James Remnant:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 18:32 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > 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. 

Maybe many of them won't find out and a lot of those will drop that
stupid Ubuntu promo CD in the waste basket because it doesn't work
properly...  ;-)

But those who have some knowledgeable friends they can ask for help
might learn that there is something very important called "DMA" that has
to be enabled using magical spells in a "DOS window" when using
Ubuntu/linux.  Even if they still don't know exactly what DMA does (hey,
probably most of the members of this list don't know that either!).

To conclude this: "normal users" aren't stupid and *will* know something
is wrong, they just lack the specialized knowledge to find the exact
cause and fix it themselves.


-- 
Jan Claeys