--- Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sat down to watch a DVD today and noticed playback > was terribly jerky. > Thought for a while about what was causing it, and > eventually nailed it; > hdparm revealed that neither my DVD drive nor my > CDRW drive had been set > to DMA transfer mode. I never checked this directly > in 8.2, but DVD > playback was smooth when I ran it, so presumably > this was being set > automatically in 8.2. > > So, can someone tell me where Mandrake sets hdparm > settings on boot, so > I can fix this on my PC 'nicely'? And is this a bug > or just a settings > change?
cd /etc/sysconfig cp harddisks harddiskhda cp harddisks harddiskhdb an so on, just for the ones that you actually have, then edit those files. harddisks applies to all. They probably disabled cd/dvd dma to play it safe, it doesn't work with some drives. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
