peter colton wrote: > Have a look at setting up hdparm for the burner to help > with > data flow. hdparm wiil tell you if dma for the drive is enabled, if not > you can use hdparm to emable it.
I thought this sounded promising but it resists my attempts to set DMA, probably because I don't know what I'm doing. (/dev/hda is the CD/DVD-writer on this machine.) Am I missing or misusing some options? Thanks, Adam # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) # hdparm -d1 -Xmdma2 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 34 (multiword DMA mode2) using_dma = 0 (off) # hdparm -d1 -Xsdma1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 17 (singleword DMA mode1) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error using_dma = 0 (off) # hdparm -d 1 -X sdma1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 17 (singleword DMA mode1) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error using_dma = 0 (off) # hdparm -d1 -Xudma2 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2) using_dma = 0 (off) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
