On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 03:09, Ric Otte wrote: > Bob, > > I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work. > But then I got the idea to see if DMA affected it. So I turned off DMA > by typing > > hdparm hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc > > And I was able to burn a couple of data cds. I reall don't know why > this worked (or even what DMA is), and I'm going to see if this > continues to work. It puzzles me, because I believe DMA was on when the > cd burner was in my home machine. > > Thanks for the suggestion, > > Ric
I know very little about DMA except that it's supposed to be faster when it works. DMA is off on my machine and I have no freezes or other troubles but my 24 speed burner can't maintain a burn speed > 12. I tried stuffing around with hdparm to get a bit more speed the other night and ended up frozen in kde and had to hit the Windows cure button ( hardware reset ). Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
