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Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails




On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Thomas H. George wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
...

> > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.
> > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows
> > > 
> > > 	ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi
> > > 		ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd: 
> > > 		DMA
> > > 	hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

...

> I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn
> it off.  Could you tell me how you did this?

to turn it off for a test..
	hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdd

you want to leave dma turned on ... you will read/write 5x-10x faster
    w/o dma
	hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdd
	hdparm -tT /dev/hdd    --- look at the "buffered disk read"

    w/ dma
	hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd
	hdparm -tT /dev/hdd

and for y.a. cdrw-howto  ( i'd say double check your kernel options )

	http://www.Linux-1U.net/CDRW/#Kernel

c ya
alvin



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