Plextor PX-716A DVD burner and xine

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 19:43, Tim Fenn wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:21:57PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 17:25, Tim Fenn wrote:
> > 
> > > take a look at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks, but more importantly
> > > /etc/rc.sysinit, around lines 850-900.
> > > 
> > > I've found if I'm not using a (good) udma cable or one of the devices
> > > on the cable doesn't support dma, dma is disabled on everything on
> > > that cable.  If I start forcing settings, Bad Things can happen.
> > 
> > I see in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks where dma is commented out.  Should I
> > create a harddiskshda file and set that on?
> > 
> > The drives in the system are SATA drives.  Not sure that DMA applies to
> > those.
> > 
> 
> Oh.  Then nevermind.  ;)  hdparm doesn't support all the SATA settings
> yet, IIRC, but SATA should be setup automagically with reasonable
> settings, anyway.  I've actually heard several people now complain
> about plextor drives under linux, maybe its something more general?
> what do you get if you grep ata from /var/log/dmesg?  I have a single
> sata hard drive, and I typically get:

Let me correct my previous email, the Plextor PX-716A is an IDE drive. 
All the other harddrives in the system are SATA drives. 

I asked about creating the specific harddiskshda file because of that.

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