On November 27, 2005 03:03 pm, Jacob Jennings wrote: > How does one go about verifying that DMA is enabled on > their harddrive? HappyTux:/home/stephen# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) <----------------- keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0 If playing the video from a DVD you will also want to check that drive as well. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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