[mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Sun May 1 19:01:22 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 11:26 -0700, Scott Harris wrote:
> Definitely have DMA on, on dvd and all HDDs.
> 
> [root at pvr sharris]# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc
> 
> /dev/hdc:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  readahead    = 256 (on)
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

Hmm... you should probably do the following:

hdparm -c3 -u1 /dev/hdc

That'll set unmaskirq to on and set IO_support to 32-bit.  That'll help.
Also, hook up a monitor and see if mplayer still complains.  That'll
narrow down the problem to whether it's the 350, mplayer, or the drive.

	-I



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