On Sunday 12 August 2001 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why would using PIO transfers make it impossible to burn CD's? A little > while back I used to burn CD's on an old Pentium 133MHz only capable of > PIO mode 4 on all drives including the burner and it still did 8x > burning without buffer under runs. The only time that I got buffer > under runs was when I did something that caused heavy disk access for > more than a couple of seconds (like loading netscape). Sure UDMA is > better, but is it essential? (I have never had a buffer under run on my > current Linux box using UDMA even when the system is being hammered by > several processes.) > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, all. > > > > Do I remember properly that because of the bug in this chip, > > that the LM80 2.4 kernel SRPMs have DMA disabled on IDE CDRs and > > CDRWs? And that that means that creating CDR* disks from IDE > > CDR* devices is impossible on motherboards that have the 686b? Not impossible for the PIO, though that does increase the Coaster to CD ratio. Impossible period on a 686B with the hardware bug. In Windows 95 98 ME and 2K as well. It is part of the property of the hardware bug, though this part has mostly been observed with Creative Sound Cards. Civileme > > > > Sincerely, > > Ron > > - -- > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | > > | > > | "Our computers and their computers are the same color. The | > > | conversion should be no problem!" | > > | Unknown | > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > iD8DBQE7Zf7EjTz5dS9Us5wRAsxyAJ9LyEDEip1pLVLqZOVK/00blnhilgCfVbjJ > > DweCd12EbvFc6mdT+8f5f2k= > > =IKHy > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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