On Sunday 06 November 2005 12:31, Stan Glasoe 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
On Sunday 06 November 2005 8:32 am, Basil Chupin wrote: 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.