Re: dvd slow and slows clock

2003-06-13 Thread John Lapeyre
Thanks, I know what DMA means. I just never heard that disabling DMA for a device will cause the system clock to run at 1/3 speed. I've run other disks with DMA disabled. But maybe thats really it. > As for the USB 2 linked device, I am not sure... I know that DMA is disabled > on CD/DVD f

Re: dvd slow and slows clock

2003-06-12 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:39 pm, John Lapeyre wrote: > I seem to recall setting the dma. I think there may have > been some problem with that in relation to the promise controller. > I'll revisit that. By the way, the hardware works great if I put in a > usb-2.0 mass-storage external case. I wo

Re: dvd slow and slows clock

2003-06-12 Thread John Lapeyre
I seem to recall setting the dma. I think there may have been some problem with that in relation to the promise controller. I'll revisit that. By the way, the hardware works great if I put in a usb-2.0 mass-storage external case. I wonder why not using dma would slow the clock down, etc... *Mar

Re: dvd slow and slows clock

2003-06-06 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Friday 06 June 2003 08:04 am, John Lapeyre wrote: > This is probably not debian specific, but I have been revisiting this > problem for a couple of years and searching on the web and am stumped. > > Dvd is too slow to view a dvd (I've tried a bunch of programs, am > using vlc now) I have to copy

dvd slow and slows clock

2003-06-05 Thread John Lapeyre
This is probably not debian specific, but I have been revisiting this problem for a couple of years and searching on the web and am stumped. Dvd is too slow to view a dvd (I've tried a bunch of programs, am using vlc now) I have to copy the files to hard drive. But the transfer is slow, about 1MB/