On Wednesday 23 October 2002 05:20 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > It sound to me like it is a problem of not using dma. I'm not a linux-guru > , but similar problems you get on all OSs without using DMA. Try hdparm on > your cd-rw and the drives there the data is coming from. Maybe it will be > better after that.
You are right, the dma is turned off on my cd devices. hdparm -d will not turn it on. I have had problems similar related to my hard drives, where Mandrake turned off dma on VIA chipsets in the final kernel to avoid data corruption problems with certain hardware configurations. My hard drives are fine with this kernel, but the ATAPI devices are off. Can anybody comment as to whether this was purposeful? Is there an option I can compile into the kernel to fix this? BTW, my apologies for sending my previous message receipt requested, that was an accident. -- /g ___________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
