On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:52 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > > > > >>I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it > >>support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 > >>It will not let me. > >> > >>Was the limit set by the manufacture? > >> > >>-- > >>#Joseph > >> > >> > > > >I think the issue might be the driver for BenQ writer units. > >Does anybody know what driver should be used with BenQ, if it is > >available at all? > > > > > > > Hi, > First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos' > chipset into kernel-config. > Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' file. > Ex.(mine): > hda_args="-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64" // this is for my hard disk > all_args="-d1" // this is for all other > disks - DVD-R and DVD-RW > Think i took this mainly from install-guide.2005.0. Don't forget to > start "/etc/init.d/hdparm start" as root and if everything is OK, > "rc-update add hdparm default" to always have this at boot time. > Test with "hdparm -Tt /dev/hdX" X is a,b,c,d (for an IDE-disk) check > again "man hdparm" for the options ;) > HTH. Rumen
I have tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd but it is not accepting the it. I can not set DMA on this DVD I just called BenQ and they don't support Linux; so don't buy BenQ products as they don't support Linux. In example of DVD/writer it will become plain CD reader. Without DMA access the writing to CD will be very slow. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
