I have been unable to enable DMA on my DVD drive which is attached to the primary ide as with nothing else. I have tried enabling it using the DMA module in the hardware section of Yast 2 and I have tried adding hda to the "FORCE_DMA_ON" section in the sysconfig editor and neither method has worked. I get the error message "dev/dev: Input/output error. mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified. I AM able to enable DMA on my cdr which is attached to the secondary IDE as the master with an Iomega zip as the slave and can mount it successfully. I previously have had Mandrake 8.2 and Gentoo installed and DMA was enabled by default and worked for this drive. In gentoo all I had to do was make sure that support for my via chipset was compiled into the kernal and DMA was utilized automatically. I don't undersand why I can't get dma to work in Suse. Please help so I don't have to go back to Mandrake. I would go back to Gentoo but it is too much work. thanks