On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:46:56PM -0400, mike wrote:
| On Saturday 04 August 2001 11:43, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
| > However, I experimented some more with hdparm, and found that the
| > problem goes away when I turn DMA *off* on /dev/hdc (hdparm -d0
| > /dev/hdc). It's highly reproducible; as soon as I turn using_dma on
| > again (which is the default config) it fails 9 out of 10 times.
| >
| > I doubt this is the way things are supposed to work, but if it shuts
| > down my coaster factory, I can live with it :-)
| >
| > -- Alex
|
| I think this is in the documentation (a howto?), so this is precisely how it
| is supposed to work.
I haven't been able to find any documentation to this effect - do you
recall exactly where you saw this? the only thing I found was a
response from Civileme to another (similar) question on this list,
basically saying the reverse, i.e., that you need DMA on the burner to
successfully burn CDs.
-- Alex
