enabling DMA on hard drives

Thu Jan 20 17:12:17 UTC 2005

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> 
> Best to let the kernel do what it does best.  Heck - even Windows seems 
> to get THIS one right most of the time...

Unless I explicitly issue a hdparm command to enable DMA on both my 
desktop and laptop, DVDs are unwatchable. There seem to be no side 
effects from doing this.

  Stewart
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