[Gllug] Cant enable DMA

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:32:45PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> >remember if it was doing DMA or not.  For the moment I'm just using
> >the IDE port to run a CD/DVD-ROM drive.
> 
> Just a general thought, do people really use DVD/CD drives so much?
> 
> My workstation DVD/CD burner gets used once in a blue moon.  Servers I 
> install always get PXE booted anyway so don't require a drive in the 
> first place.

Yes!  I have a (getting rarer) first-gen DVD drive which doesn't do
the stupid region stuff in the BIOS.  Because my Mac is now locked to
Region 1, I *have* to first rip DVDs in this drive just in order to
play them.  It's also good for ignoring UOPs and just playing the film
I bought.

It's also good for ripping CDs (I don't have a CD player anywhere, so
need to rip to MP3 in order to play).

Rich.

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