On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 08:40:13PM -0700, knesbitt wrote:
> I am having trouble trying to get mplayer to play dvd's without
> momentary freezing. The reference docs make mention of the "hdparm"
> command to set the DMA and read ahead modes on the drive. Has this
> feature not been compiled into the current 8.0 kernel? I receive a
> "bad command" when I attempt to run this at the command line. Not
> sure how to querry the status of the device ore set the DMA without
> this command.

Its a separate utility:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] hal]$ rpm -q hdparm
hdparm-5.2-1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] hal]$ which hdparm
/sbin/hdparm

-- 
Hal Burgiss
 



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