Comment 26 for bug 36185

(In reply to comment #24)
> Is it at all possible to make sweeping generalisations that would help this
> issue? For example, "all drives faster than 48x are new and all new drives
> support DMA"? Or, "all DVD-R drives must support DMA"?

It is possible, but we have no way to know if it is correct.

> Also, how do other distributions deal with this issue?

An excellent question, and one that would be very beneficial to research. If
anyone following this bug is interested in helping to get it fixed, this would
be a good starting point.

I know that some distributions simply enable it by default, which might be
acceptable for their audience, but not for Ubuntu.

If anyone can find out about prior efforts in this area in other projects in
order to provide us with a starting point, we could perhaps get started on
implementing a solution as early as the developer summit in November.