[MPlayer-users] Re: why is -nocache default?

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:52:23PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> probably wrong hdparm settings. make sure you have sufficient
> readahead, dma enabled, unmasking enabled, 32bit mode enabled, etc..

as i have been educated by somebody much more IDE expert than i am,
32bit mode actually hurts performance if DMA is available.
(Maybe this statement is a bit oversimplified but i memorized it this
way. Modern Hardware && DMA available => 32bit access BAD).
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Stefan Seyfried