How do I turn on DMA for ide-scsi DVD drives
Konstantin Svist
fry.kun at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 03:47:40 UTC 2008
spmirowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Back when Fedora handled disc drives as ide, I would use hdparm to
> turn on DMA. Now that Fedora 8 seems to run them as SCSI devices,
> hdparm can't tell them to turn on DMA. Any ideas how to get them
> blazing fast again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
They should already be running at max speed, if they're using the new
driver.
Please check the speed (not the hdparm reported setting) before
attempting to optimize.
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