Enable cd/dvd DMA
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 03:36:54 UTC 2005
On 7/10/05, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 21:25, Stephen Armstrong wrote:
> > I'm trying to enable DMA (for hdc) using hdparm as
> > root but when I tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc I get the
> > error: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc not permitted
>
> Check the bios options for the mode your cd/dvd player is set for.
>
> I have a mother board that this had to be set correctly to allow hdparm
> to set the DMA mode.
>
> --
> Scot L. Harris
> webid at cfl.rr.com
>
Not all CD/CD-RW drives support DMA. I have 4X and 12X CD-RW drives
which only supports PIO.
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