Public bug reported:

Hi,

Short summary:

system has sata disk:

[    2.128771] ata3.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDT721032SLA380, ST2OA31B, max UDMA/133
[    2.128774] ata3.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[    2.129689] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133

works fine:

sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   4096 MB in  2.00 seconds = 2047.85 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  270 MB in  3.02 seconds =  89.48 MB/sec


and dvd drive:
[    2.114207] ata4.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH41N, MN01, max UDMA/100, ATAPI 
AN
[    2.118545] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100

sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sr0:
 Timing cached reads:   450 MB in  2.00 seconds = 225.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:    4 MB in  3.23 seconds =   1.24 MB/sec

k3b burns very slowly: 0.11x speed instead of 4x (as media allows).

$ hdparm -i /dev/sr0

/dev/sr0:

 Model=HL-DT-ST, FwRev=MN01, SerialNo=K5Y9AP52302
 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
 RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0            
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0              
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0     
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio3 pio4                                      
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2                                   
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5                
 AdvancedPM=no                                                   
 Drive conforms to: unknown:  ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7                

 * signifies the current active mode

$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sr0

/dev/sr0:

ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
        Model Number:       HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH41N
        Serial Number:      K5Y9AP52302
        Firmware Revision:  MN01
        Transport:          Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, 
SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
Standards:
        Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1
Configuration:
        DRQ response: 50us.
        Packet size: 12 bytes
        cache/buffer size  = unknown
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns

seems like dma is not set for dvd drive, but dmesg claims dvd drive
configured ok for dma:

dmesg | grep ata 
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000cfeb0000 - 00000000cfebe000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  modified: 00000000cfeb0000 - 00000000cfebe000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]   #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 
- 0000001000]
[    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 30 pages at ffff880028022000, static data 90720 
bytes
[    0.000000] Memory: 3917816k/4980736k available (5043k kernel code, 788228k 
absent, 274692k reserved, 2810k data, 652k init)
[    1.457405] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 7180k
[    1.559651] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[    1.572183] pata_atiixp 0000:00:14.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> 
IRQ 16
[    1.572212] pata_atiixp 0000:00:14.1: setting latency timer to 64
[    1.577228] scsi0 : pata_atiixp
[    1.577334] scsi1 : pata_atiixp
[    1.578378] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xff00 irq 14
[    1.578380] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xff08 irq 15
[    1.582917] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1...@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffd00 
irq 29
[    1.582920] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1...@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffd80 
irq 29
[    1.582923] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1...@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffe00 
irq 29
[    1.582926] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1...@0xf9fffc00 port 0xf9fffe80 
irq 29
[    1.921827] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    1.933806] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    2.110057] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    2.110082] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[    2.114207] ata4.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH41N, MN01, max UDMA/100, ATAPI 
AN
[    2.118545] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    2.128771] ata3.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDT721032SLA380, ST2OA31B, max UDMA/133
[    2.128774] ata3.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[    2.129689] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    3.397314] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode

I've rebuild the kernel in order to put all libata into loadable modules and 
blacklisted ata_generic
lsmod|grep ata
pata_amd               14628  0
pata_acpi               5312  0
pata_atiixp             6048  0
libata                201068  4 pata_amd,pata_acpi,ahci,pata_atiixp

It didn't help in improving dvd burning speed.

Happy New Year!
Thanks,
Alexander

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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