--- "Robert L. Cochran" <cochranb@speakeasy.net> wrote: > Huh, that's weird: I rechecked the DMA setting for > my DVD drive with > hdparm and now it is turned off. I guess it can't > take DMA? I hope I can > play movies on this thing. > > Bob > > I was able to get it to stick for my DVD drive (I checked by rebooting and dma was still set) by doing both of the suggestions mentioned previously: 1. I created a file /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc which contained the single line USE_DMA=1 2. I edited /etc/modules.conf and added the line: options ide-cd dma=1 This seems to have worked for me. Regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com