Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow
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Hi all.
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 2:45 am, Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya cirrus
> i'd bet that you need to have your cdrw on one ide cable and your
> system disk on a different cable ..
The cdrw is on a different ide cable from my system drive.
>
> and you would need to set your cdrw to udma2 ( ata-33 )
> hdparm -d 1 -X 66 -m 16 -c 1 /dev/hdc
Nope that didn't do the trick
>
> also be sure that your kernel supports the ide chipsset on the mb
>
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev
40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
$ cat .config|grep VIA
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
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That is the only VIA related option
> and you might want to try using an ata-66 ( 80-conductor ) cable to see
> if it helps any
I think the cable is an ata-66 cable.
> c ya
> alvin
Cheers
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 2:20 am, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> What kind of power does the machine have ?? It's gonna take a fair
> amount of power to burn at that speed and do anything else
> comfortably... I've seen some 32x + burners "recommend" a PII-500 or
> higher.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1400.001
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$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 327655424 297631744 30023680 0 10526720 134602752
Swap: 740265984 55382016 684883968
MemTotal: 319976 kB
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Cirrus
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