Slow dvd writing

Tue Mar 29 17:15:33 CST 2005

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:07:02 -0300, Gustavo Rahal <gustavo at grahal.net> wrote:
> 
> Why is DMA not on by default? This is a problem that most users have to
> solve by them selves. Is it because of hardware incompatibility? How do
> other distros solve this problem?

The problem is that some drives will not work with DMA enabled.  There
was work being done on a hardware database that would have this
information, IIRC, but I cannot find the page at the moment.