On Thursday 20 February 2003 17:37, Harold Helmich uttered: > Having problems getting my DVD-ROM to work using DMA. I have a Toshiba > SD-M1212 DVD-Rom set up as a slave to my CD-RW. My CD-RW has DMA in > Linux but the DVD-ROM. Both have DMA set in the bios. Somewhere the > DVD-ROM DMA setting is getting turned off. I have tried to turn on DMA > using hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd. I get an error message syaing operation not > permitted. However, if add hdd=ide-scsi as kernel parm then I DMA is > set. However, players do not see the drive correctly. > > Anyone have clues where to start looking to solve this issue? edit /etc/modules.conf and set "options ide-cd dma=1" When you use ide-scsi, it becomes a scsi interface. Starting at /dev/scd0 for the first scsi CD, /dev/scd1 for the second, so on and so forth. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list