hdparm.conf dma settings fail

[Brian Pack]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:19:03 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Odd thing is when I set up a command line in hdparm.conf for my hard
drive, it's accepted without complaint.

Harrumph.