On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:38:20PM +0300, Scharf Yuval wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem. > When I play a music CD in my CD-ROM every now and then (but quiet a lot) > My CD-ROM stops playing and my HD start working as mad. This can take > between one second and 4 seconds. I don't think that the HD is really used > then. > > I don't understand what is the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong by CD > playing is done by ordering the CD-ROM to send date to the sound card. > > My HD is hda and my CD-ROM is hdc. I also have a CD-burner as hdd but it > is not working while I listen to music. > > Is it a hardware problem? It is a kernel problem? > I'm not sure but until two weeks I had Mandrake and I don't think I had > that problem then. Although I don't use the computer for listening to music so > much. > > It has nothing to do with quality of the media because it happened with > both burned and purchased CDs. > > Thanks, > Yuval Scharf > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
Make sure that DMA is enabled on all your drives: su emerge hdparm hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda # turn dma on (hard disk) hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc # turn dma on (cd) Also, make sure that the audio from your drive is being sent through the audio cable (to your sound card), opposed to the IDE interface. steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
