IDE DMA Blacklist?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> > Since I know that DMA works on that drive under Warty, is there a way
> > to override or modify that blacklist?
> 
> The blacklist lives in $kernel_source/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c but I
> wouldn't recommend changing that table in the first instance. There
> might be a kernel parameter for this.

I'm not planning in recompiling by kernel just for this.  I have 2 cd-drives
in that machine, and the other one's dma works fine (and it's a newer
drive anyway).  But it's a slight annoyance
in the transition from Warty to Hoary.  I should probably report it in
the bugzilla.