On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:33:35 +0100, Richard Revis wrote: > This is of particular interest to me as I am about to replace my CDRW with > a DVDRW and while PIO seemed to be fine for a 4x writer it's not going to > be able to sustain 6mb/sec!
FWIW this is how I fixed it: Create a new folder (~/devs) as root. Make a new node for the DVDRW (MAKEDEV hdd). Turn on DMA (hdparm -d1 /root/devs). And CPU usage has dropped from 20% to 5% when ripping data from the drive :o) -- This line intentionally left blank. 19:37:37 up 41 days, 5:50, 1 user, load average: 0.90, 0.84, 0.88 Current number of open Freenet connections: 62 E-mail address munged to prevent spam. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
