hdparm.conf

[david]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:21 -0400, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On 7/23/05, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I've been looking at the /etc/hdparm.conf file and I'm not sure
> > about what I'm looking at.
> > 
> > Do the lines that start with a # get read?
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> 
> No.  In almost every (every?) configuration file the line with # are
> comments.  They arent read by the program using it.
> 

OK,

If that is the conf file for hdparm and all the lines in it are
commented out, then how come the hard drive has DMA enabled and the CD
drives don't? 
What I mean is, where else are the drives getting configurations from?

nux