On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 16:05, Michael Adams wrote: > Following the "First -Suspect Me" Thread with interest. > > My Case... > Brand new store bought V9.0 pre-installed computer. > It has a 52x CD on hdb (fstab was set up for hdd but i corrected that). > The supplied disks are recorded download edition 9.0 40x recordable. > The disks have an envelope address size sticker plastered on them. > The CD will read any package ok after repeated attempts. > > Which solutions will help reduce read errors the most. > 1. Buy another IDE cable and put the CD on hdc. > 2. Remove the stickers incase they are causing speed wobbles. > 3. A software method of throttling back the top read speed. > (Does this exist and what is it?) > 4. Other suggestion...? > > -- > Michael
Why not try using hdparm to change/modify the buffering on the device? Make sure it's using DMA and it's using the proper PIO/XFer modes... (i.e. hdparm -X70 -d1 -p4 /dev/hdb ) ----??? Give that a go before getting purchase-crazy... PS: I don't think a sticker's going to make that much difference - but if you want to peel'em off, well, they're YOUR cd's! -- Mon Nov 25 17:05:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired. But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired. -- Rita Gain
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