hdparm.conf not getting read?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:57:03AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> Many CD-ROM drives do not handle DMA correctly.  This caused users to be
> unable to install Ubuntu from their CD-ROM drive.  As a tradeoff, we
> disabled DMA on CD-ROMs by default, so that they can be enabled in
> situations such as yours, where this is known to work correctly.
> 
> Perhaps at some point in the future we can make a more intelligent decision
> about whether to enable DMA on a CD-ROM drive, but in order to fix the worst
> of the problems, we chose this path for the Warty release.

To answer your question, probably DMA was being enabled by default on your
system previously, which explains the change in behaviour.

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 - mdz