With all due respect to a Linux guru who knows much more than I, the
problem is probably due to DMA being turned off by default. On my first
RH 8.0 machine, I was frustrated with the very same problem for several
hours until I found instructions for turning on DVD DMA on freshrpms.net
at http://freshrpms.net/docs/dvd/ . Warren has placed the same info on
his RH 8.0 tricks page on the MPLUG wiki.
Good luck,
-Jeff
MonMotha wrote:
The problem is probably that your DVD drive is stuck in PIO mode. I
know RedHat's kernel has the only enable DMA on disks option set, so DMA
won't get enabled on ATAPI devices. I know there's a kernel option to
work around this, or you can use hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX. However this may
not work if you are using SCSI emulation (why? is this also a burner?)
--MonMotha
