On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:35, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > My experience with recent kernels is that I don't need to use > > > /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhd* any longer. > > > > I have observed this also. On the other hand, the kernel seem to do > > bad job of detecting that certain ide cdrw's could use having dma turned > > on, and I > > have to turn this on with hdparm. What is going on with this? > > before phoebe we defaulted to DMA off for cd(rw) drives because a LOT of > them gave problems. A defect in the kernels ide code has been found and > fixed so now it seems to be mostly ok (with the exception of a blacklist > where the kernel will default to dma off)
Ah, nice to know. Would it be possible for you to point us in the general direction (on the net) of this list please? It would prove very useful indeed to many when making certain hardware choices. Regards Philip Wyett -- ICQ: 135463069 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Public key: http://www.philipwyett.dsl.pipex.com/gpg/public_key.txt --
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