I have been having this very annoying problem of very high system load
when burning audio CDs. When burning a full audio CD at 24x, I have
seen the load average reach 20 -- This, on a single processor AMD
Thunderbird system. top shows 90%+ system proc usage, and, although the
burn works, and the
* David Bell writes:
[high system load when doing anything other than burning plain data
discs]
Is this an issue in the kernel or cdrecord?
Kernel.
Is it expected to be fixed soon?
Kinda fixed since 2.5.47 IIRC. ide_scsi isn't needed anymore, but
readcd doesn't work yet.
If not, if I put the
Yes, why not? See http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/-RW/ for
further details. A.
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Using a Memorex DVD+RW/+R writer with X-CD Roast under Linux
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http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/. A.
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* David Bell writes:
Yes, DMA is enabled on all drives:
[12:50:51][root@david:/home/david]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
hdparm -i isn't really appropriate here. You should use -v.
man hdparm:
-i Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at
boot time, if available. This is a
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:53:36PM -0600, David Bell wrote:
Yes, DMA is enabled on all drives:
[12:50:51][root@david:/home/david]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 6E040L0, FwRev=NAR61590, SerialNo=E10RVGWE
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0,
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:37, Len Sorensen wrote:
I see NOTHING there that indicates if dma is on or off, only what is
supported. The * does NOT indicate linux is using dma.
/proc/ide/hd?/settings does, as might hdparm device, by itself.
Your method most certainly does not.
Sorry about
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