On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:02:52PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Dma *IS* enabled:
With Linux 2.4, it's only enabled if the sector size is a multiple of 512. So you can have DMA for writing data CDs, but not audio or VCD, for example. So this could be your problem. I don't see if you mentioned what exactly you are burning? Without DMA, it seems your southbridge pretty much determines how fast your burns can go and there's a point where things really start to tax the CPU. For example, with the old VIA 686b I got about 14x max and a totally bogged down system. At 12x, no problems. Swapped motherboard to a SiS745 based and 16x burns were suddenly no problem. Due to some other mysterious 2.4 Linux problem, I went to 2.6 soon after, DMA works there if you use the ATAPI interface for burning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
