Very useful! Thanks a lot! It actually seems like even with large files (100s of mb's) the speed is far from nominal at least on my system.
Would it be possible to somehow mention this little buffering program on the official growisofs page? I have read that manual quite carefully, and this was one of the unfortunate cases where RTFM did not help too much. On the other hand, mastering images to harddrive before writing them to a DVD is so yesterday ... Konstantin --- Peter Osterlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Konstantin Kudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am curious as to why the actual speed I get happens to be a lot > > slower than the nominal one. I am using Knoppix 3.8.1 with 2.6.11 > > kernel in /dev/hdc, and the DVD writer is /dev/hdd > > > > If I do not use "hdparm" to set the speed of /dev/hdd to udma2, > then > > actual speed happens to be even slower. > > > > I am creating the image on the fly, could that make things go > slower? > > Yes it could. See this link: > > http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/12/msg00226.html > > -- > Peter Osterlund - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://web.telia.com/~u89404340 > Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
