>From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> The first: How fast is it theoretically possible with an UDMA100
>> harddisk to burn *without* burnfree protection? If I burn with my
>> plextor premium at full speed I would always get buffer underruns.
>With the upcoming Linux-2.6 Kernel you will be able to burn with full
>speed because the 2.6-Kernel can talk to the burner in DMA mode.
This seems to be good hope...
>Current 2.4 Kernel isn't capable of doing this.
This is not always true.
The problem is that there is no unique method that allows to set up DMA
for all transport implementations and there are plety of them because there
is no coordination for a unique API.
If people try to start working on a decent unique ABI, Linus Torvalds usually
blocks them :-(
J�rg
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