Basil Chupin wrote:
I just spent the last 3 days re-installing and re-installing and re-installing 10.1 trying to get that *STUPID* new (or even the old!) software updater to work. It stuffed my system each time so I had to re-install.
I've just this morning installed 10.1 on yet another system - no problems. I guess I didn't touch the software updater ....
The setting of DMA now does NOT work. Period. No matter what I do - either what Silviu said or what you said (re using /etc/sysconfig/ide - just doesn't work. It did after the first install of 10.1 and when I wrote the comments earlier in this thread but now, when I went to view a DVD earlier today, I discovered that nothing that I do in putting parameters in control files sets the DMA for the one device that needs the setting to be able to view DVDs correctly - namely, HDB.
That sounds worthy of a bugreport. The boot.idedma script was replaced by a different mechanism in 10.1, so maybe something was missed.
The wackiest thing about all this is that even if using 'hdparm -I /dev/hdb' shows that the DMA *is* set (to udma2 in my cse) but unless the DMA is shown as being set in CC/Harware/DAM Mode then the device behaves as a device without DMA.
I haven't checked, but I think it's relatively safe to assume that CC/Hardware/DMA uses 'hdparm' under the covers. Are you saying that what "hdparm -I" says does not match what you see in CC/Hardware/DMA ? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com