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

[Jon Dixon]

Did that hdparm make it into the rc release?

Still had the problem on my desktop with a DVD-R/W drive.

Thanks,

Jon

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Jon Dixon wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> That's a different issue, and the workaround is no longer necessary since
> hdparm 5.8-1ubuntu3.
> 
> It shouldn't be necessary to use hdparm at all; DMA should be automatically
> enabled where it works.  That is the bit which will require time and data
> collection.
> 


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