> > $ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -speed=8 -R -J treename > > it takes the whole 44 minutes > > First question: is DMA enabled on the burner? (hdparm /dev/hdX) I am an idiot: my kernel did not have IDE chipset driver support, so I was unable to use DMA/PIO on any of he drives. Now that I compiled that in, the 4.1G gets written under 8 minutes, and the reported speed is 7.8x. Thanks a lot for the DMA clue and sorry for the idiotic question, Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://ebner.neuroscience.umn.edu/people/alex.html Dept. of Neuroscience, Lions Research Building 2001 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel (612) 625-7566 FAX (612) 626-9201
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