Bill Marcum wrote:
What kind of video is it? Dvd? Do you use the regular video drive provided by X, or an accelerated one? Might make a difference. You might also want to try enabling ultradma, as well. Hdparm says messing with that is dangerous, but, honestly, I never saw any kind of harm doing hdparm -X etc /dev/some-drive. If not possible, hdparm outputs an error, that's all. Check 'hdparm --help' for the -X (case) option. This shall bring you to the best possible transfer speed for the drive.On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:03:29AM -0800, Jacob Jennings wrote:How does one go about verifying that DMA is enabled on their harddrive?hdparm /dev/hda(or whatever the name of your hard drive is; "/dev/sda" for SCSI or SATA).