FC5 and Dell D810: still no DMA for CD/DVD drive

[William John Murray]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:02 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> I've just installed FC5 on my Dell D810, everything went fine w/
> regard to
> the hardware, but the CD/DVD drive still shows very poor xfer rates
> and eats
> CPU (last tried: FC3, it was the same w/ ~1.4MB/sec). I thought that
> FC5's
> kernel was able to enable DMA for IDE drives controlled by a SATA
> (disk
> is /dev/sda, dvd drive is /dev/hdc), am I wrong?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> wwp 

   Hi there,
         In the test phase I had to add 'hdc-noprobe' to my kernel
parameters, and it works so I never took it off..
           Bill