In a previous message, Anders Johansson wrote:
Do you know what device it was before it was an ide-scsi emulated monstrosity? Look at the boot parameters if you don't, it should say something like hdX=ide-scsi, where X is a, b, c or d. Let's say it's hdc
Not sure where you meant that I should look, but the boot log shows the following: <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 <4>VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 <4>VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <6>VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA <4>hda: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: DVDROM 8X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: Memorex Twelve MAXX 1032, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 IIUC, that means that the DVD drive is hdc, and has DMA turned on. So that was that idea out of the window. Is there anything else I could change to improve DVD playback? Thanks! John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards