Plextor PX-716A DVD burner and xine (details)

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 00:43, Raymond Lillard (rlillard) wrote:
> My problem is similar to Scot's (Plextor) and may be related.
> 
> I have installed FC3 (+ all outstanding updates) on a Dell 
> Latitude D810 laptop.  The everything works, but I am unable 
> to get my CD/DVD drive to use DMA. My experience with 
> "hdparm" is the same as Scott's as described previously.
> 
> Interestingly, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100, which is nearly 
> four years old running a fully patched FC2 OS with no DMA 
> issues.  It is running kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2 which makes 
> me think the problem is related to the 82801FBM (AKA ICH6R) 
> in the D810.


I wonder if this could be because FC2 still treated the devices as SCSI
devices and FC3 doesn't do that anymore?

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