On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:50:25 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> i.e. it (slowly: the file is on a local disk) fills the > buffer, plays the buffer, then waits while it refills the > buffer. I doubt this is the problem, especially on a new machine, but in the past issues like this were a symptom that DMA mode was not enabled for the drive(s) in question. Are you sure the kernel is enabling DMA I/O for the DVD and the HD? BTW, is there a way to check for a drive's DMA mode in /proc on the newer (/dev/sda using) kernels? (In the old days it was in /proc/ide, but all that is routed through the scsi i/o system today.) Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
