On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <SNIP> > > My experience with recent kernels is that I don't need to use > > /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhd* any longer. > > I have observed this also. On the other hand, the kernel seem to do > bad job of detecting that certain ide cdrw's could use having dma turned > on, and I > have to turn this on with hdparm. What is going on with this?
before phoebe we defaulted to DMA off for cd(rw) drives because a LOT of them gave problems. A defect in the kernels ide code has been found and fixed so now it seems to be mostly ok (with the exception of a blacklist where the kernel will default to dma off)
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