Re: cdwrite, cdrecord, xcdroast
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 12:48:56PM +0100, Brederlow wrote:
> Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
>
> > On Thu 19 Nov 1998, Brederlow wrote:
> >
> > > cdrecord - stops with a shmmem error (invalid argument)
> >
> > Your kernel probably doesn't have a large enough shared memory segment
> > available. I recall that for some reason, it is smaller on Alpha than
> > on i386. cdrecord by default requests a 4MB segment. You can change this
> > with the fs= parameter.
>
> How can I enlarge the size in the kernel?
>
The maximum shared memory segment size is set by the SHMMAX define in
include/asm/shmparam.h. However, I've been told a segment as large as 4MB
is not necessary at all. I've been burning CD's with fs=1m just fine.
Henk-Jan.
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