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> if you run ogle --debug it will try to find information about your drives
> and print that along with some (hopefully) helpfull hints.

Thanks, I'll try that.

> And yes mostlikely it's something like /deb/hdc or /dev/hdd that you want.
> Strange that hdparm accepted those other drive specifications, though I'm
> not all that fammiliar with newer kernels and/or devfs etc.

No, this is a peculiarity of using devfs and ide-scsi - there is no
/dev/hdx. It seems that you have to specify something similar (but not
identical to) the full scsi path. Quoting from Q.31 of the FAQ:

 NOTE (devfs and ide-scsi): If you use devfs and ide-scsi
 you won't get any /dev/hdc device to run hdparm on (if
 /dev/hdc is the dvd drive using ide-scsi). Instead you
 need to use 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/generic'.

The question is how do I figure out what to substitute for  "/dev/ide.."
in the above to turn dma on for my drive; I set out the possible
variations I could think of in my earlier post, none of which were
successful in getting rid of the choppy video.

B.