Hello, DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card.
Yuval Scharf On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:38:20PM +0300, Scharf Yuval wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a strange problem. > > When I play a music CD in my CD-ROM every now and then (but quiet a lot) > > My CD-ROM stops playing and my HD start working as mad. This can take > > between one second and 4 seconds. I don't think that the HD is really used > > then. > > > > I don't understand what is the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong by CD > > playing is done by ordering the CD-ROM to send date to the sound card. > > > > My HD is hda and my CD-ROM is hdc. I also have a CD-burner as hdd but it > > is not working while I listen to music. > > > > Is it a hardware problem? It is a kernel problem? > > I'm not sure but until two weeks I had Mandrake and I don't think I had > > that problem then. Although I don't use the computer for listening to music so > > much. > > > > It has nothing to do with quality of the media because it happened with > > both burned and purchased CDs. > > > > Thanks, > > Yuval Scharf > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > Make sure that DMA is enabled on all your drives: > > su > > emerge hdparm > > hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda # turn dma on (hard disk) > hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc # turn dma on (cd) > > Also, make sure that the audio from your drive is being sent through the audio > cable (to your sound card), opposed to the IDE interface. > > steve > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
