On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:17:10PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Mar 15 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > > So, I guess > > > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom > > > > to enable dma and irq unmasking for hd and cdrom are required.. > > Yes. And the strange thing is that sometimes my combo drive > automatically disables the DMA for some unknown reason.
I have noticed this with pretty much all drives I've used. So, does multiword access with -X34 or so give performance gains ? I have noticed that -c1 locks my machine.. > I'm also using 10.1.3 and both DVDs of mine (I only have 2) > are not great with my 600MHz ibook. Both show bad interlacing > (the worst one is "G3 Live in Concert"). I tried the DVD of 'The Wall' which probably is not the best DVD to try out, but it played just fine, with no visible artefacts.. viral -- http://www.mayin.org/~gandalf I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon.
