On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jason Gilbert wrote: > 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. ummmmm ... i'm pretty sure that, even though i had hdb=ide-scsi automatically added to grub.conf, that drive did *not* have DMA enabled until i did it explicitly. can anyone answer this definitively? rday