[ltp] How does /proc/acpi/ibm/bay work
Tony Whitmore
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:27:15 +0100
Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:49:30AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
>>I can swap my DVD/CD-RW drive, as well as an additional IDE hard
>>drive.
>
>
> Do you can use DMA after re-insert the DVD/CD-RW drive?
Yes. I disable it before I remove the drive and re-enable it after
inserting. "hdparm -d" reports it as being on.
I should perhaps test the validity of this by trying to play back a DVD
(which struggles without DMA on.)
Tony