F7t4 KDE live CD test report

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Tuesday 2007-05-01 23:21:53 dragoran dragoran wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Doncho N. Gunchev <gunchev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 2007-05-01 21:52:04 you wrote:
> > >   I installed F7t4 from the KDE live CD, my hardware profile is:
> > > ebf36068-3809-426c-ade0-d0c531b5b402. Here are the results:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >   Suspend to ram did not work with any kernel. In most cases, when the
> >
> > ...
> > I think it has something to do with the new IDE /should I say SCSI ;-)/
> > disk
> > driver. It complains that something is not supported...
> >
> > OT: Now, when hdparm -d 0/1 does nothing, how can I switch DMA on/off for
> > my
> > DVD-Writer and hard disk?
>
> there is no reason to turn it off the new driver should select and set the
> best dma mode that your drive/chipset supports; if not its a bug.
>

I know it should (remember when these settings got removed from
/etc/sysconfig/*?), that's why I asked 'how?'. My DVD-Writer seems
to not use any DMA at all (~1MB/sec vs >4MB/sec in FC6). How do
I know if it uses "the best mode", if I can't try any other?

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Regards,
  Doncho