Hi Andreas! > I really like to use DMA for my cdrom/burner but I cant figure out how to > make it working!
> tapa ~ # hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom > /dev/cdrom: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) Two hints, perhaps they help - "hdparm -i $DEVICE" will display what the device can support - I would run hdparm on the physical device file, that is /dev/hdc, not on the cdrom-link. > Does anyone of you know if there is DMA support for this cdrom-drive It sounds like a plain old ATAPI drive, so should work with the generic stuff. No specific knowledge about your drive, though. Anno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
