Re: 100% system CPU usage with cdrecord

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

> > From: Rob Bogus mail account <rob23@firewall2.tmr.com>
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> > I *strongly* suggest using ide-scsi with 2.4 kernels. You want to boot 
> > with something like "hdc=ide-scsi" I believe, that what I use for all my 
> > working 2.4 systems. The device will probably be 0.0.0, but do check by 
> > looking at /proc/scsi/scsi to be sure.
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> > I have not had any problems with ide-scsi under 2.6 kernels since 2.6.2 or 
> > so, but the ATAPI interface is much easier on the CPU for audio burn.
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> The ATAPI: interface has no DMA at all
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> The ATA: fixes a DMA bug that should be ficed the same way for ide-scsi.
> 	It is just annoing to see that the Linux kernel folks first
> 	copied the code from ide-scsi just to create this unneeded new
> 	interface and later onlu fixed the bug in the copy but not in the
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Thank you for catching this! The original post had ATAPI and I read it 
as ATA (brain fart). What he said, what I meant, not what I said.

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E. Robert Bogusta
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