Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Hi, Mikkel > > Em Quarta 31 Maio 2006 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson escreveu: >> Hdparm can NOT control DMA setting for SATA drives. What I have done >> is to add "hdc=noprobe" to the Grub boot line for the kernel. hdc is >> then treated as a SCSI device, and it uses the BIOS DMA settings. >> Hdparm will still say that DMA is not turned on for the drive, but >> DMA will be used. (It also says that DMA is off for /dev/sda.) >> > Thanks. This seems to have solved the problem for the hard drives, but I have > yet to find out if there's something more that must be done for the DVD > drives, which are still too slow. > > []'s > Marcelo > What devices do the DVD drives show up as? You may have to add more noprobe options. I am using it on a laptop, so I only have the hard drive and the DVD-RW drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
