I seem to recall setting the dma. I think there may have been some problem with that in relation to the promise controller. I'll revisit that. By the way, the hardware works great if I put in a usb-2.0 mass-storage external case. I wonder why not using dma would slow the clock down, etc...
*Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Friday 06 June 2003 08:04 am, John Lapeyre wrote: > > This is probably not debian specific, but I have been revisiting this > > problem for a couple of years and searching on the web and am stumped. > > > > Dvd is too slow to view a dvd (I've tried a bunch of programs, am > > using vlc now) I have to copy the files to hard drive. But the > > transfer is slow, about 1MB/s and the desktop has bad very response > > time during this time and the system clock runs very slow. The mouse > > in particular will hang for a second or so at a time. > > You probably don't have DMA activated. > > I have my DVD on /dev/hdc, and I do this as root: > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc > > Then, if this works, you can put a script on /etc/init.d and a link to it in > /etc/rcS.d, so DMA gets activated during boot-up.... however I am not very > sure about this last step, I've never done it in debian (only in SuSE), so > maybe one of the more learned debianites can tell us about it. -- John Lapeyre http://physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
