On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:06 pm, Randy wrote: > Gregory K. Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > >>cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda > >>and > >>cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc > >>and uncommenting it in there does not work ? > > > > This does not work, it looks like tho script affects harddisks only. I > > see two options, one is to turn on dma in rc.local as I have done, and > > the second is to uninstall hdparm so that rc.sysinit can't turn off dma. > > The copy and modify procedure given above worked perfectly for me. > This is exactly what I did by following the directions in rc.sysinit. > > I have Lite-On DVD and Lite-On CDRW, both run better with DMA enabled. > > This *is* the correct procedure I believe (and it works for me). > > Rand E.
Okay, yes it worked, I had a typo in the filenames. I had called them harddiskshda and hardiskshdc. Now it works. -- /g ___________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
