[Hoary] DMA still not on by default. Hardware DB, Can I help?

[Matt Galvin]

On Apr 2, 2005 3:10 PM, Jon Dixon <dixon.jon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt
> 
> There is a workaround to the dma issue that works for my laptop on hoary.
> 
> $ sudo update-rc.d -f hdparm remove
> 
> $ sudo update-rc.d hdparm start 50 S . stop 75 0 6 .
> 
> See if it works for you.

Sadly, no it did not work for me :(

Oh well, thanks anyway for the tip.

Matt

> Jon
> 
> Matt Galvin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running on the Hoary RC from the other day and just about
> > everything is working great. The whole system is looking and feeling
> > really good.
> >
> > My CD-RW/DVD+/-RW drive does work with DMA turned on but it is not on
> > by default. After every reboot DMA gets turned off. I added "hdparm -d
> > 1 /dev/hdc" to a startup script to turn it on for me when my machine
> > boots up but it would be nice if Hoary already knew this so I don't
> > have to manually do it. I found:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3672
> >
> > which lead me to
> >
> > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareDatabase
> >
> > and I wondered in what way I could help. I know Oli is working on the
> > Ubuntu Device Database, but I noticed that someone metioned building a
> > SQL backend. I've done quite a bit of DB dev and I would love to help
> > build such a backend if someone has not already started/completed it.
> > Please let me know if I can help in anyway.
> >
> > If not, is there some info I can send that would help this process
> > along? I already submitted my hw data vi oli's app.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> 
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