On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 12:24 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 05:27, Angelo Machils wrote: > > > You should try hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdc as root and on my Plextors (716A > > burner and 116A reader) it works without problems. Still have to find > > out where to put this statements for both drives so they work at startup > > of the system. > > > > Tried that but still get this error: > > [root@terrabyte ~]# hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2) > using_dma = 0 (off) Maybe this is obsolete, but I have "options ide-cd dma=1" in my /etc/modprobe.conf. Also I previously had "hdparm -d1 -X68" on my Plextor 716 drive and burned DVDs had errors, but with "hdparm -d1 -X66" everything seems to work correctly. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
