User: !equal

Re:Tunneling with servers

On: Security Focus Interviews Damien Miller

ssh's "-D" option lets you do "dynamic port forwarding."

Re:the one fault with ubuntu imho...

On: Ubuntu: Desktop Linux's Success Story

It also doesn't turn DMA on by default on cdrom drives - or 32bit disk access on ANY drive.

I don't understand why it doesn't turn on 32 bit disk access for you, but it does turn on 32 bit disk access for me on my Maxtor hard drive and for my CD burner in Ubuntu on an Asus board with a VIA chipset.

Here is the output of my "hdparm /dev/hda" (my 80 gig Maxtor hard drive) in Ubuntu 5.04:

/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 81964302336, start = 0

and the "hdparm /dev/hdc" output (on my cd burner after I enabled DMA using "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc"):

/dev/hdc:
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

Maybe it only has 32 bit access disabled by default on all drives only on certain kernels or something? I am using the "k7" kernel instead of the default "386" kernel in my install of Ubuntu.

Re:the one fault with ubuntu imho...

On: Ubuntu: Desktop Linux's Success Story

Maybe that poster meant that Ubuntu doesn't turn on DMA, by default, on CD/DVD drives which would result in jerky playback of DVD's.