On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:39:07 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: > > I think this might answer your question: > > >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=slrnaqmulh.nlo.danceswithcrows%40samantha.crow202.dyndns.org&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fas_q%3Ddvd%2520burn%26safe%3Dimages%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_ugroup%3D*linux*%26lr%3D%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D12%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D2002%26as_maxd%3D13%26as_maxm%3D11%26as_maxy%3D2002%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den > > >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=4eca0601d31a3ac2&seekm=ZSyG8.10727%24fH5.11256210%40kent.svc.tds.net#link3 > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue83/stoddard.html > > > > Thanks for the info, Lonnie. That helped a lot. Now I've decided to skip > the dvd writing. I really only wanted to read dvd and write to cd; so I'm > looking at a Plextor Combo that does that. It says that DMA must be enabled > and give directions for doing so in Windows. I'm thinking this will mean > recompiling this into my kernel. I have two machines - one is a Walmart > Microtel and that has several of the DMA selections enabled in the kernel. > I'm not sure what it has in the Lindows kernel, but I installed plain Debian > 3.0 on it and it gave me a kernel with DMA. My other computer is one I put > together about 3 years ago. It has an Ultra DMA 66, but the kernel does not > have any of the DMA selections made. I think that is because I did a fresh > compile of the kernel and had to figure out what to select. I'm thinking > I'll try a fresh install of debian on that machine to see what I end up > with in the kernel. Or, I might just try a recompile with whatever looks > good under DMA. This is the computer I want to put the Plextor in. > > Does this make sense? Corrections or advice appreciated.
AFAIK, DMA isn't explicitly a kernel setting. For most IDE controllers, you get the support by compiling support in the kernel for vanilla IDE. There are a small number that need special support in the kernel, but not the majority. After that, all you need is hdparm to tune DMA settings. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
