hdparm.conf not getting read?

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at canonical.com
Tue Oct 5 11:15:29 UTC 2004


Hi Petri!

On 2004-10-03 12:50 +0200, Petri Pennanen wrote:
> Hello you all, and thanks for a great distro!
> 
> I tried watching a dvd a few minutes ago and noticed terrible lag. It
> worked last friday so I got confused. After looking around for a few
> minutes I discovered that /dev/hdc had dma set to off. I have this:
> 
> 	/dev/hdc {
> 	        dma = on
> 	}
> 
> in /etc/hdparm.conf and it had worked previously.
> 
> 	sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> 
> Provides a temporary fix, but I have to do this every time I reboot
> (since this is a laptop that is pretty often). 

Can you please submit a bug report in Bugzilla? Then we do not forget
about this. We have to do higher-priority bugs first (because DMA is
usually enabled by default, with no need for configuration file
fiddling).

Thanks for spotting this!

Martin
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