DMA for DVDdrive

Viro ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sun Nov 14 09:12:53 UTC 2004


baza Wrote: 
> At the moment I'm turning on DMA every time I want to watch a DVD. Is
> there any way I can configure Warty to do this at boot so I don't have
> to keep doing it. I know I used to be able to do that with Yast when I
> was running Suse 9.1 Pro.
> 
> Barry
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Edit your /etc/hdparm.conf file. Right at the end, add the following
lines



/dev/hdc {

	dma = on

}



Replace /dev/hdc with your own DVD drive. That should do it.


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Viro




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