On Thursday 04 November 2004 11:47, Kim Lux wrote: >Here is an hdparm from an FC2 machine: > >hdparm /dev/cdrom > >/dev/cdrom: > HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument > > >Is it optimized incorrectly ? It has dma and an unmaskedirq and 32 > bit I/O. > Looks good from here, matching what I have, and I can burn ok. >????????????? > >On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:39 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:11:53AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote: >> > That is exactly what I was looking for. Your drive isn't >> > optimized. unmaskirq should be enabled and it should use 32 bit >> > support, not 16. >> >> These are irrelevant for DMA mode, and DMA is on. It looks >> properly tuned to me as far as this shows > >-- >Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.