Re: Data corruption reading IDE CD-ROM in 2.2.x

From: Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 20:30:53 EST

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Khimenko Victor wrote:

> P.S. BTW is it possible to turn off DMA usage when there are no CD in drive ?
> hdparm -d 0 giving 'No medium found' and when I forget to disable DMA before
> first try to mount CD I'm getting total system freeze :-(( Really annoying ...

Yes, do it this way:

echo "using_dma:0" >/proc/ide/hdb/settings

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