FC4: DVD DMA on Dell Notebook?

Schlueri schlueri-lists at schlicker.org
Mon Jun 20 10:56:23 UTC 2005


Am Montag, den 20.06.2005, 10:18 +0200 schrieb Schlueri:
> On a Dell Inspiron 9300 i'm unable to play dvd, because the dma is not
> enabled. I think i'll run into problems if i try to burn cd/dvd.
> 
> Try to set dma with hdparm gives me the following error:
> 
> # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
> 
> /dev/hdc:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> 
> 
> I found this:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=279310#post279310

I've tried the things from fedoraforum and others i found with google
but without success. Maybe i failed because i'm not a kernel expert. 
:-( 

Hope for help.

Thanx
Dirk





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