--- Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > How can I enable DMA on an IDE writer in Linux? > I need SCSI-emulation to use the writer, but that disables DMA. > > It seems that my 16X CDWriter cannot write at that speed without DMA. > It only > works at 12X, and uses up a lot of CPU resources. > Is there any way to switch DMA back on? > hdparm refuses because it sees a SCSI device.
Why do you think that the drive can't write at 16X without DMA? Have you looked at the man page for hdparm? I see a number of options that may help, such as -E which sets a CDROM drive speed. I'd say before you mess with any hdparm settings you see what the current settings are (-v) and what the drive is capable of (-i). ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
