On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Tino Meinen wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > comments? additions? > I found that DVD-playback was rather jerky in the initial standard RH > configuration. (momentarily freezing for a moment, every second or so) > > However, after I put an ide-scsi layer on the DVD drive (by giving > hdc=ide-scsi option while booting) DVD playback became very smooth.
I'm not positive (the machine is at home), but I think this may be related to the fact that using ide-scsi turns on DMA as a side effect which is what actually makes it smoother. I know I checked by DVD drive w/ hdparm and it showed DMA enabled. I haven't actually tried any movies yet, I had enabled ide-scsi as I've heard it's better when ripping audio w/ cdparanoia. jason -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
