[mythtv-users] DMA not enabled

[Paul Andreassen]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:28 am, Phil Strong wrote:
> I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now has SATA
> drives. After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live tv and it is
> slow and/or skips. I checked the hdparm for /dev/hda5 (/video) and find out
> that DMA is disabled :).
>
> How do I go about enabling DMA?
>
> If the answer is reinstall how do I insure this won't happen again?

I'm wondering why you haven't got /dev/sda5.  Do you have a recent 2.6 kernel 
installed.  This should fix you problem.

Paul

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