Re: cdwriter /dev/hdc question

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Running 2.6.2 atm, but for quite a while in the 2.6.x series I've had 
> a line in /var/log/messages immediately after the dmesg dump 
> indicating that dma was being disabled for /dev/hdc.

I think this is bogus, in that it is silently enabled again. Ask hdparm!

I thought that message was either going to go away or be paired with a 
similar "I didn't mean it" message if the drive is reenabled, but I 
can't quickly find the discussion.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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