[ltp] T43, DMA on DVD drive

[Wolfgang Karall]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:35 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
> However upon trying to turn the DMA on I get a different error:
> 
> # hdparm -d 1 /dev/sr0
> 
> /dev/sr0:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

No need (and no way) to manually set the DMA mode, using the
libata-Driver for the optical drive gives you DMA-like performance (as
in proper throughput while keeping CPU utilization low) by default.

Regards
WK
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