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[Dennis <dlbt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marino Fernandez wrote:

> --- "Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > On 02/04/2003 03:32 AM, Dennis wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > My DVD drive is on secondary slave (hdd) but it is
> > >      
> > using SCSI 
> >    
> >
> > > emulation as the secondary primary is connected to
> > >      
>
>  
>
> > Try the boot paramenter, hdd=ide-cd.
> >    
>
> SCSI emulation does not interfere with you enabling
> DMA; my DVD/CDRW drive has scsi emulation, it is seen
> by linux as /dev/sr0, and still  I can enable DMA with
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc... 
>
> However, if yours is a DVD-ROM or a DVD-rom/CD-rom
> (i.e. a read only device)... if it is not a burner,
> you do not need SCSI emulation... SCSI emlation is
> needed only tu burn CDs... if this is your case it
> makes sense disabling SCSI emulation... but if you
> disable scsi emu and you have a burner... well, then
> you won't be able to burn cd's.
>
>  
My DVD rom is not a burner, just a normal DVD/CD-Rom, so it is okay to 
go without SCSI emulation.

I will check the DMA setting but I remember it has been turn 'ON' ? the 
issue here is 8.1 pro emulate both drives for me during setup and this 
may be the cause of the problem as I cannot access to the DVD drive 
initially and need to relink to sr1 for it to work, any concern here?

Thank you for any help
Dennis