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Title: Turn on DMA
Post by: pippin on December 21, 2006, 05:52:10 PM

Where do you turn on DMA for your CD/DVD burner?

Title: Turn on DMA
Post by: pippin on December 25, 2006, 06:50:43 PM

Noeone that can help me with this one.
The recorders are attached on a IDE contoller.
I dont know where to config so they can burn at DMA speed and that they acctually work with burning

Title: Turn on DMA
Post by: mbachmann on December 29, 2006, 05:27:38 PM

Issue at command prompt

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hdparm /dev/hda


If you have a raid config, issue hdparm also on hdb and other disks. If you have sata, disks are called sda, sdb...

Look if DMA isn't already enabled.

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hdparm -d /dev/hda enables DMA.