I have a new Dell Inspiron 9300 with a Sony (slim) dvdwriter, the drive works great in windows thus I'll guess the bios is ok and that the drive supports DMA-but i'll check anyway. Anything else to try? --- Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
