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On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:40 pm, 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.
> Appreciate any help!

Perhaps it's not in your path?
Try '/sbin/hdparm'
You'll probably need to be root to do anything useful with it.

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