TRODAT wrote:
Mark,
I to am having similar problems with SATA drives, to the point where the
audio coming from XMMS sounds just TRIPPING!
Well while all my drives are PATA, I should mention that I'm not even
trying to play mp3s/Ogg files from any of my five drives most of the
time. I run a group of Internet radio stations so most times I am
listening to them. It's not the server skipping, it's for sure some kind
of few second freeze of the mouse/display and the sound stutters at the
same time.
It's also not just audio in XMMS. I could be watching a video clip in
VLC or mplayer and have some of the same results. The picture would
freeze for a moment and the audio would stutter for a few seconds, then
resume normal playback...and that's even with NOTHING else running but
X, Xfce, and VLC.
I can "manually" make it worse. As I said before, if I untar an archive
like Mozilla or something it gets almost unlistenable and the mouse is
constantly freezing as I move it around.
One thing that helped me was to INSURE that the dma for the
hw.ata.atapi_dma and hw.ata.ata_dma where both set to 1.
DMA is for sure enabled on all the hard drives, but the optical drive
remains in PIO mode. I haven't attempted to play anything from that yet,
however.
Also, staying STABLE for me has been advantageous.
I have not tried STABLE yet, but if it would help this and wouldn't
introduce any new problems I would be happy to give it a try.
-Mark
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