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

[Adam Membrey]

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
> 

Easiest way is to edit your /etc/hdparm.conf file

you will get an error message to say device not found at boot but it 
still works :)