Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data
Pigeon,
Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or
motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything
useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from
dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz.
Thanks,
Ric
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:48:21PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> DMA stands for Direct Memory Access. It means that data is transferred
> directly between the drive and memory without the involvement of the
> processor.
>
> The alternative is PIO - Programmed I/O or something - in which (a)
> the processor transfers the data to/from the drive, and (b) it does so
> over the I/O bus, which runs at around 11MHz for historical reasons.
> Hence, slow.
>
> The common problem with DMA is that VIA chipsets, which are
> distressingly common, have DMA bugs. It works OK on my machine, but
> a lot of people have had problems. What chipset / MB have you got?
>
> Pigeon
>
>
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