On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:39:10AM +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 0:26, Matias Grana wrote:
> > I'm recording a DVD which is capable of doing 16x, using k3b. Before
> > starting, k3b explicitly said:
> > Writing speed: 22713 KB/s (16,40x)
> > but then, it began writing at speeds between 0.5x and 0.9x, so it took
> > me about 2 hours to record.
> > Before I begin writing the next 2 dvds I need to, I beg for any advise
> > as to how correct this.
>
> Is DMA enabled for this drive? Does anything odd appear in dmesg?
>
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> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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I think this is the relevant part of dmesg. I don't see anything strange here,
but perhaps you do.
NFORCE2-U400R: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
NFORCE2-U400R: chipset revision 163
NFORCE2-U400R: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE2-U400R: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE2-U400R: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a3) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST3160021A, ATA DISK drive
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
hdb: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Also, when I booted there was a message saying that it couldn't load ide-cd. I
can't find that message now. I don't have ide-cd compiled into the kernel nor
as a module, though.
MatÃas
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