On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:28, Kim Lux wrote: > Could I ask some people to run hdparm on their cdroms and report their > findings to the list ? > > ie: $/sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc (typically, some CDROMs might mount > elsewhere.) > > We've found some CDROMs are not optimized to use 32 bit access and with > the irq still masked. This might result in poor performance when using > them as CD Burners or as a ripping source. > > Thanks. > Here's mine, Gateway (Samsung) notebook. /dev/hdc: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument Question is, how do I change those parameters? > > > -- > Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 11:31:09 up 23 min, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 1.06, 0.87
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