Dma on dvd-writer

[Corey Burger]

Even the much vaunted windows rarely enables DMA by default.

Corey

On Apr 9, 2005 9:12 AM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 06:02:50PM +0200, M.Ali Hussain wrote:
> 
> > why is not dma on by default in hoary with the new 16x dvd writer ?
> 
> Because it causes many CD/DVD devices to fail to function, or even crash 
> the
> system, if it is enabled unconditionally, and we currently have no means 
> to
> determine whether it is safe to enable in a particular circumstance.
> 
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3672
> 
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