Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Synthetic Cartoonz <synthetoonz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 12:31, Stan Glasoe wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 8:32 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Many thanks. I shall now look at these 2 files to see what I may see.
> >
> > BTW, what exactly do you mean by "fine tune"? And the other thing, what
> > exactly is the entry/entries in /boot.local, just simply hdparm -d1
> > /dev/hdb ? Asking because putting the correct entry in /sysconfig/ide
> > and 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb' in /boot.local do not fix the problem- the
> > udma for hdb (aka dvd and cdrom) still won't "stick" and the only way to 
> > (temporarily) set it is via the command line as Bryan does it.
[....]
> As to why your device won't keep YaST's settings you will probably find
> that it will take a customized hdparm setting to make it work. There are
> the -k and -K parameters for hdparm that 'keep_settings_over_reset' and
> 'keep_features_over_reset' respectively, which should help your situation
> IF the device honors them.
[...]

I see the same thing as the original poster.  The hdparm -K option doesn't 
work on any CD or DVD drives here.  So, the DMA has to be forced on boot as 
described above.