How to setup DMA on my CD-RW?

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:33:49PM +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
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>>>Welcome to Red Hat Linux,
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>>do you mean especially redhat
>>or
>>debian, suse, gentoo, yelowdog, ...
>>freebsd, openbsd, ...
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>All these distributions are made of several independant projects
>so I guess the same thing applies to them.
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>>http://www.distrowatch.com/
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>If you can find how to activate DMA on your CD-ROM from DistroWatch,
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easy way, a few steps in a few minutes


steps to reproduce:

1. go to
http://www.distrowatch.com/

2. go to redhat  [#1 mandrake #2 redhat]
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat

3. here you will find "documentation"
http://www.redhat.com/docs/

4. search for "dma cdrom sysconfig"
http://www.redhat.com/apps/search/results.html

5. here you can find he "Red Hat Linux 9 Red Hat Linux Reference Guide"
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/pdf/rhl-rg-en-9.pdf

6. it will be opened with xpdf, search dma=1
on page 48 you can find chapter "4.1.10"


here you are.

/etc/sysconfig/harddiskhd[a-h]
USE_DMA=1


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shrek-m