Jeff Mings wrote:
With all due respect to a Linux guru who knows much more than I, the problem is probably due to DMA being turned off by default. On my first RH 8.0 machine, I was frustrated with the very same problem for several hours until I found instructions for turning on DVD DMA on freshrpms.net at http://freshrpms.net/docs/dvd/ . Warren has placed the same info on his RH 8.0 tricks page on the MPLUG wiki.Good luck, -Jeff
Isn't that what I said? :)There's an option in the kernel to only enable DMA for hard drives, but not removable media. RedHat turned this on in their kernel for stability reasons (it causes problems in very rare circumstances, mostly older systems). Basically there's a bunch of ways around it to enable DMA again on your DVD drive; pick any of them and run with it.
--MonMotha
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