Re: Help with DVD+RW w/UDF file system

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Chris Oxenreider wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get DVD+RW w/UDF to work under Fedora Core 3
> [Kernel  2.6.12-1.1372_FC3] using a Samsung TS-H552U DVD drive.
> I have formatted the disk, I have put a UDF file system on the disk, and
> I have removed it from the automounter.
>
> I can copy small files [<1mb] to the disk fine.  I can 'rm' the files
> fine.  However when copying large [>1gb] files to the DVD is painfully
> slow, and the load average on my Athalon system jumps to 3.87 or higher.
> The intention was to use the 4.3 Gb of DVD space as archive for my
> flexbackup files of my home systems however this may be too slow.
>
> Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong here?
Is all the time system? Does hdparm show the drive as DMA enabled? If it 
is running uning PIO it will take a great deal of CPU.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979