On 7/10/05, Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx > Not all CD/CD-RW drives support DMA. I have 4X and 12X CD-RW drives which only supports PIO.
