Re: Data corruption reading IDE CD-ROM in 2.2.x

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:30:53 -0500


Khimenko Victor wrote:

> P.S. BTW is it possible to turn off DMA usage when there are no CD in drive ?
> hdparm -d 0 giving 'No medium found' and when I forget to disable DMA before
> first try to mount CD I'm getting total system freeze :-(( Really annoying ...

Yes, do it this way:

echo "using_dma:0" >/proc/ide/hdb/settings

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Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox.com

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