On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 00:43, Raymond Lillard (rlillard) wrote: > My problem is similar to Scot's (Plextor) and may be related. > > I have installed FC3 (+ all outstanding updates) on a Dell > Latitude D810 laptop. The everything works, but I am unable > to get my CD/DVD drive to use DMA. My experience with > "hdparm" is the same as Scott's as described previously. > > Interestingly, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100, which is nearly > four years old running a fully patched FC2 OS with no DMA > issues. It is running kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2 which makes > me think the problem is related to the 82801FBM (AKA ICH6R) > in the D810. I wonder if this could be because FC2 still treated the devices as SCSI devices and FC3 doesn't do that anymore? -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..." (By Larry Wall)
