I have an IDE DVD drive (/dev/hdc) and I would like to turn on DMA to speed up playback of movies in ogle.
In SuSE 8.0, I am able to use: hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc to turn on DMA and it makes a huge difference in playback frame rates. When I use this command (as root) in Red Hat 8.0, I get an error... /dev/hdc: Setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) I verified that the device was owned by root and rw for root. Does anyone know why this doesn't work? Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Sing blue silver Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list