On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:53:12 -0400
Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
> Christian Christmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > on my Debian box I'm running the kernel 2.6.6.
> > I've read somewhere that the kernel 2.6 doesn't need
> > the SCSI-emulation for IDE-burner anymore and thus
> > I disabled this option while compiling the kernel.
> >
> > Now burning CDs is running very slowly. Even if I tell
> > Xcdroast to burn with 16x, the speed goes down to less
> > than 2x.
> >
> > And ideas how to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
> I had a problem similar to that and also encountered
> occasional lock ups. The solution was to DISABLE
> DMA on my CD burner. Not sure what the issue is, but
> that was the solution.
>
> -Roberto Sanchez
>
Don't know that I have or had DMA tuend on, but I point k3b & XCDRoast
to my cdroms directly /dev/hdc & /dev/hdd, and I've had no problems in
the past few weeks, since debian came out with a 2.6.* kernel
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