hdparm.conf not getting read?

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Mon Oct 4 12:02:12 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:57:03AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:20:08PM +0200, Petri Pennanen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 12:50 +0200, Petri Pennanen wrote:
> > > It worked last friday
> > 
> > Sorry, it should read this friday. The system was last updated this
> > morning.
> 
> 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.

That doesn't immediately explain why Petri's hdparm.conf setting stopped
working, though ...

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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