On Friday 07 March 2003 07:16 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD > > > drive? > > > > You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility. (I'm assuming > > you do have IDE and not SCSI drives, right?). > > My two CD drives are ATAPI CD-RW and ATAPI DVD/CD-R > > They are both mounted as ide-scsi so that they could be seen my > x-cd-roast., I have given up with that utility, as it could not see > my IDE HD. > > Can hdparm handle the ide-scsi mountings? The two drives are on my > system as /dev/scd0 (/dev/cdrom, CD-RW) and /dev/scd1(/dev/cdrom2, > DVD/CD). > > Rob
I followed the instructions in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to enable dma on my optical drives, and yes, one of them is set for scsi emulation and it works just fine. -- Greg
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