hdparm.conf

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 12:15 +0100, david wrote: 
> 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
> 
> 
Your system's BIOS!  My system is like that.  Most (all?) BIOSes set DMA
on for hard-drives but not all set it for CD-ROM/DVD devices.

Ziyad.