>From: "Marc Gregoire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>How do I know if the drive is really burning at 24x? Because when i burn an
>650MB image on a CDR with cdrecord speed=24 ... it take around 440sec to
>burn it (+20 sec for fixating). 440sec, so i guess it's writing at only 10
>speed or so, although cdrecord says "burning at 24x". Of course it could be
>the media not supporting speeds higher than 10x, but is there a way to see
>the speed at which the drive actually burn.
Did you read README.ATAPI ??? Burn Proof????
>How can i see if the ultra dma is activated in linux. When i check with
>hdparm i get:
>[root@alpha /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
>/dev/hda:
> Model=PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A, FwRev=1.02, SerialNo=342481
> Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
> RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
> BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
> (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:180,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2
>I suppose that * means the active transfer mode?
This is the it looks if it works....
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris pci: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: ide@0, ata0
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ata0 is
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 640982 kern.info] ATAPI device at targ 0, lun 0
lastlun 0x0
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 521533 kern.info] model PLEXTOR CD-R
PX-W2410A, stat 50, err 4
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 241969 kern.info] cfg 0x85c0, cyl 0, hd
0, sec/trk 0
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 674665 kern.info] mult1 0x0, mult2 0x0,
dwcap 0x0, cap 0xf00
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 350272 kern.info] piomode 0x400, dmamode
0x200, advpiomode 0x3
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 245087 kern.info] minpio 180, minpioflow
120
Dec 18 15:27:58 batris ata: [ID 435839 kern.info] valid 0x6, dwdma 0x7,
majver 0x0
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