On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:02 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I've just installed FC5 on my Dell D810, everything went fine w/ > regard to > the hardware, but the CD/DVD drive still shows very poor xfer rates > and eats > CPU (last tried: FC3, it was the same w/ ~1.4MB/sec). I thought that > FC5's > kernel was able to enable DMA for IDE drives controlled by a SATA > (disk > is /dev/sda, dvd drive is /dev/hdc), am I wrong? > > > Regards, > > -- > wwp Hi there, In the test phase I had to add 'hdc-noprobe' to my kernel parameters, and it works so I never took it off.. Bill