DMA disabled by default for optical drives - why?

[Kim Briggs]

On 12/19/05, Steve <bassix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > Because old drives don't support DMA and it's why, i think, DMA is not
> > set by default.
> >
> >
> > --
> > frodon
>
> Isn't this a little contradictory? For example, by default IPv6 *is*
> enabled, which causes browsing problems for systems without this *new*
> technology. However DMA is treated the opposite? I rather need to do
> some fiddling to get any *old* hardware to work, than to get current
> hardware (probably majority) to work.
>
> Just my opinion...
>
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Related link for newbies:  Here is how to enable DMA to be "on"
automatically from the Ubuntu help guide.

http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html#id2514447

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