First of all, what kind of system are you on (CPU - RAM), which burner
are we talking about?
Is it an IDE burner with SCSI emulation?
What could help a lot is tune your disc devices with hdparm (I got a
huge boost out of this).
Install hdparm with 'urpmi hdparm'.
First turn to your hard drive (/dev/hda I will assume), since it is the
source of data for both your writer OS and programs, it needs to work
optimal.
- check the current settings and mail the output to the list, this way
we can advice you better.
hdparm /dev/hda
Now, make sure you have the specifications of your devices handy.
I use these settings for my Hardisk:
'hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda'
Breaking it up:
-c1: turn on 32-bit disk access
-d1: turn on DMA (is probably on already)
-k1: keep settings over bus reset (you need this)
-u1: Unmasq IRQ (reduces waits between different disk operations) -
Watch out with this one, it has been known to cause system instabilities
on some motherboards/harddisks, but it works fine for me.
-X69: force IDE-DMA Mode5 (UDMA 100) (adapt to your need, check 'man
hdparm'
Test them out to see which one suit you best.
Now do almost the same for the cdrom/dvd/writer devices (e.g. /dev/hdc)
'hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -u1 /dev/hdc'
'hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -u1 /dev/hdd'
Again, test it carefully.
If you are satisfied with what you got, put it in a startup script like
the one below (which is /etc/init.d/idedma)
Then open the Control Center, go to system - services and set it to run
at boot.
--> done
Additionally you can also switch filesystems to get an even better
performance.
I found ReiserFS very fast, XFS has been reported to be great too.
Good luck and have a lot of fun!
---- BEGIN SCRIPT ----
#!/bin/sh
# description: hdparm setup voor harddisks
# chkconfig: 2345 99 00
HDPARM="/sbin/hdparm"
case "$1" in
'start')
echo "Setting up DMA parameters (hdparm)..."
$HDPARM -qc1 -qd1 -qk1 -qu1 -qX69 /dev/hda
$HDPARM -qc1 -qd1 -qk1 -qu1 /dev/hdc
$HDPARM -qc1 -qd1 -qk1 -qu1 /dev/hdd
touch /var/lock/subsys/idedma
;;
'stop')
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/idedma
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
;;
esac
exit 0
---- END SCRIPT ----
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:06, Vincent Chen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using
> xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do
> anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and
> surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my
> mandrake 9.0 for better performance?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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