On 8 Oct 2002, 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. > > So people having trouble with jerky DVD playback might have a look at > this aspect. hmmmm ... i didn't have to do that since my /boot/grub/grub.conf *already* had an appended kernel parameter of "hdb=ide-scsi", but i'm assuming that that's because it's also a CD-RW and (i'm guessing here) a writer will automatically get that. am i guessing right here? rday