Swapped CD-rom drive won't read data.

[Neil Woolford]

At 02:08 02/11/04, you wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:49:52PM +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:
>
> > I notice in dmesg there are two errors relating to hdc;
> >
> > hdc:  set_drive_speed_status:  status=0x51  (DriveReady SeekComplete Error)
> > hdc:  set_drive_speed_status:  error=0xb4
> >
> > later I see;
> >
> > hdc:  ATAPI 48X CDROM drive, 128Kb cache, DMA
>
>https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2773
>
>
>--
>  - mdz

Yes, the fix suggested there, setting 'using_dma' to 0 in 
/proc/ide/hdc/settings works fine. Thanks.

But I'm afraid I don't know how to make this 'sticky', so the fix needs to 
be done every time I start
the computer.  Where can I set the configuration of this value so that it 
is automatic?

Neil

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