Hey all, Having problems with choppy DVD and MPEG playing, I read and followed this article about hdparm: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html?page=2 Doing the command lines shown there (for using DMA and such) to my hard disk (/dev/hda) as well as DVD player (/dev/hdc) cut out all the chopping when playing DVDs and hard-drive-stored MPEGs. At the end of the article, it says to add the command lines "to your /etc/rc.d/* scripts" but to make sure it's done after fsck. Huh? I know little about the booting process. I'm guessing I'd add these lines in /etc/rc.d/boot , after the commands in that script which mount the /etc/fstab file systems? The lines are: hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hdc Thought I'd ask here before trying this. The commands have been tested by hand and work fine. I'd like these settings automatically for my system now that I've seen how much sweeter things run with them. :-) Using SuSE 7.3 Pro, BTW. Later, Joe "Flame" Sullivan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firechild Web Design and CGI Scripting Services http://firechild.net Secretary, World Association of Internet Marketing http://waim.org Webmaster, Amerikanska - For Americans In Sweden http://amerikanska.com Meta-editor, Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------