Hi all, The problems I wrote about such as "no media" as well as slow burning speeds on LiteOn 1673S seem to have been caused by the DMA being turned off on the drive.
Basically, with DMA off, the burning is dog slow, and the CPU utilization is very high. With DMA on (hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd) things work as they should. Some kernels I tried did not turn on DMA on the drive during the boot time, so that led to problems. Additionally, pipebuf2 program seem to have cause semi-permanent damage to one of the DVD+RW disks when the burning stalled for few seconds. When using growisofs without pipebuf2 and DMA off, the stalls seem to cause no problems. Konstantin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
