On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:07:25PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: ... > now strongly suspect that I could have bought an external USB DVD burner > at a lesser cost and that I would have had no problems burning my > backups via this slow channel. I'm not going to buy an external burner ... > DVD+RW will simply continue at the exact same spot, eventually resulting > in a valid copy of the input data, no holes attached.
up to you to try - good luck and pls report back, I won't do it for you, I've piled up enough DVDs, now good as glass-mat only ;) Anyway, DVD+R is known to offer such feature (theoretically), but YMMV. And, ~4400 MB @ ~10Mbps means ~73 mins for recording just 1 DVD ... > while growisofs is burning an .iso image, the system becomes totally > unresponsive & unusable for other purposes. I'm not sure why this > happens since CPU utilization does not appear to be that high (but then your system is I/O bounded, gowisofs takes up the whole i/o bandwidth; check DVD burner docs and/or play with gowisofs' -speed. check with ' dmesg|grep -i yenta' (or whatever pccard driver it's using) what your pcard is using, also check with 'cat /proc/interrupts' that you have INT handled by IO-APIC-*; if you see XT-PIC instead, your system is handling interrupts the old and quite inefficient way; that might be either the kernel config or just your system. > burning data from the albeit slow HD (4200rpm I believe) that it's no no magic in place here, it won't read faster than your HDD's speed - check with 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda' (as root and assuming HDD is hda) what's your limit. regards -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
