Recently k3b has been complaining on startup:
DMA disabled on device HL-DT-ST - DVDRAM GSA-4167B
I'm running Ubunutu Hardy (Jaunty seems to be set up very differently,
with different /dev/... for the DVDRW)
When I try
hdparm -d /dev/hda
I get
/dev/hda:
using_dma = 0 (off)
Putting in
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma = 0 (off)
I've looked on the web, and there is some commentary about enabling dma
in the kernel. Yikes -- we shouldn't need regular users to do that.
Any ideas? Or is this a false complaint by k3b.
JN