Actually on my machine, I have 3 hard drives and a CD-RW.
Since I have all 3 drives using UDMA, I have to disable DMA on the CD-RW
to get it to burn properly.
With DMA enabled I get all sorts of problems burning CD's.
With PIO it works fine...
-JMS
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To: Ron Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] CD Writing and the Via 686b southbridge
Why would using PIO transfers make it impossible to burn CD's? A little
while back I used to burn CD's on an old Pentium 133MHz only capable of
PIO mode 4 on all drives including the burner and it still did 8x
burning without buffer under runs. The only time that I got buffer
under runs was when I did something that caused heavy disk access for
more than a couple of seconds (like loading netscape). Sure UDMA is
better, but is it essential? (I have never had a buffer under run on my
current Linux box using UDMA even when the system is being hammered by
several processes.)
Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Do I remember properly that because of the bug in this chip, that the
> LM80 2.4 kernel SRPMs have DMA disabled on IDE CDRs and CDRWs? And
> that that means that creating CDR* disks from IDE
> CDR* devices is impossible on motherboards that have the 686b?
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> Sincerely,
> Ron
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