-- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 06:45 PM -0800): > > hi ya cirrus > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, cirrus wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. > > I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage > > goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't even play an ogg file properly). > > Grabbing a copy of cdrtools-2 did help when burning iso's. Now i can burn iso > > images in just 3 minutes, but when burning bin/cue images using cdrdao the > > problem is still there(and it takes around 5-10 minutes for each cd). I've > > tried with dma enabled and disabled and played around with the drive settings > > using hdparm, but nothing changed. > > i'd bet that you need to have your cdrw on one ide cable and your > system disk on a different cable .. > > and you would need to set your cdrw to udma2 ( ata-33 ) > hdparm -d 1 -X 66 -m 16 -c 1 /dev/hdc
Read the manpage for hdparm -- the -X option *rarely* needs to be used on modern drives as they automatically set to their highest transfer rate on power on, and an improper setting can cause data loss and/or corruption. In addition, the -m option is usually only available for hard drives (do an hdparm -i on your cd/dvd device -- most likely, you'll notice that MaxMultSect is 0), and it, too, can cause fs corruption if set incorrectly (to set it correctly, see what your drive can support using hdparm -i and reading the manpage). Be careful about posting stuff like this as it's highly device dependent -- indicate information about the command and some possible settings to look into. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
