On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 10:59, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> He he - looks like you are being hit by the DMA issue - many drives 
> (including some HP drives) have an issue with DMA. Try running:
> 
> hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc
> 
> before you do a burn. Does the problem go away?
> 
> Conversely, it may also be that you *need* DMA for other reasons (my DVD 
> drive is a paper-weight unless I turn on DMA). So try this if the above 
> does not work:
> 
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> 
> See if it burns now. 
> 
> Atul


but his hdc isn't hdc any more. it has probably become scd0 or
something, and hdparm doesn't work with scsi (emulated or not) drives.

- t.



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