hdparm.conf dma settings fail

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I tried setting dma on for both my optical drives in hdparm.conf, but I get a
> 'no such file or directory' error no matter what I did. I tried using the
> suggested structure, and the command line options. Nothing.
> 
> I also created ide-cd in /etc/modprobe.d with the line options ide-cd dma=1,
> and I get "unknown paramater 'dma'".
> 
> I can set it manually once it's finished booting, but it should have been
> taken care of by then.
> 
> What have I missed?

probably nothing.  I had the same problem on my machine..  So I ended
up creating a "rc.local" like functionality at boot time to do that
hdparm command automatically (instead of doing it manually).  I
believe there was some posts about this a few weeks ago on this list.