Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
is it possible that your cd drive is running as a slave to the hdd ? kind regards anupam Scharf Yuval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, 1. It has nothing to do with another mm application because It also happeneds when I use cdplay in the console (before starting X). 2. When Steve asked me to check if the CD-ROM is actually connected to the sound card I connected the CD-RW to the sound card too. The problem occur with this drive too.. 3. Last, I tried to check with my Windows ME. and it happened too. The CD-RW is quiet new. Is it possible that some how even though the second device doesn't work they confuse each other? Although it happeneds in Windows too I don't think that there is a problem with the devices themselves. Yuval Scharf On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: On Friday 22 August 2003 21:42, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Scharf Yuval wrote: DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Are you low on memory? It could be that the HD activity is the system doing a lot of memory swapping. Everything freezes for a second when there is heavy swapping. Is is possible there is a mm app trying to grab the attention of the sound card?Maybe arts, esd or such? Have to admit to be guessing, because I believe youare correct in what you say.The cd player should say Please send this cd along that cable to the sound card. and it happen without much 'thought'. -- Tom Wesley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ...mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
Hello, DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Yuval Scharf On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
Scharf Yuval wrote: DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Are you low on memory? It could be that the HD activity is the system doing a lot of memory swapping. Everything freezes for a second when there is heavy swapping. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
No, I think that it happeneds even in the case when the computer is doing almost nothing. Yuval Scharf On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Scharf Yuval wrote: DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Are you low on memory? It could be that the HD activity is the system doing a lot of memory swapping. Everything freezes for a second when there is heavy swapping. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
On Friday 22 August 2003 21:42, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Scharf Yuval wrote: DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Are you low on memory? It could be that the HD activity is the system doing a lot of memory swapping. Everything freezes for a second when there is heavy swapping. Is is possible there is a mm app trying to grab the attention of the sound card? Maybe arts, esd or such? Have to admit to be guessing, because I believe you are correct in what you say. The cd player should say Please send this cd along that cable to the sound card. and it happen without much 'thought'. -- Tom Wesley pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
Hello, 1. It has nothing to do with another mm application because It also happeneds when I use cdplay in the console (before starting X). 2. When Steve asked me to check if the CD-ROM is actually connected to the sound card I connected the CD-RW to the sound card too. The problem occur with this drive too.. 3. Last, I tried to check with my Windows ME. and it happened too. The CD-RW is quiet new. Is it possible that some how even though the second device doesn't work they confuse each other? Although it happeneds in Windows too I don't think that there is a problem with the devices themselves. Yuval Scharf On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: On Friday 22 August 2003 21:42, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Scharf Yuval wrote: DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Are you low on memory? It could be that the HD activity is the system doing a lot of memory swapping. Everything freezes for a second when there is heavy swapping. Is is possible there is a mm app trying to grab the attention of the sound card?Maybe arts, esd or such? Have to admit to be guessing, because I believe youare correct in what you say.The cd player should say Please send this cd along that cable to the sound card. and it happen without much 'thought'. -- Tom Wesley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of CD-ROM.
It may be, though I say may because I'm completely stumped, that there is some sort of arbitration problem on your IDE bus. Check you CD drives and make sure that only one is the Master and that the other is a Slave. Though if this is indeed it's doubtful that your computer would work at all. If it happens in windows as well, it must be a hardware problem and not a driver/software problem. I had a friend once, that had similar troubles to which you are facing just now. In the end, it turned out to be a broken cable: it would corrupt the data intermitantly, so that every so often data would have to be re-sent from the device, causing considerable latency. If you have access to other cables, give them a try; but, it's a long shot. On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:42:42AM +0300, Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, 1. It has nothing to do with another mm application because It also happeneds when I use cdplay in the console (before starting X). 2. When Steve asked me to check if the CD-ROM is actually connected to the sound card I connected the CD-RW to the sound card too. The problem occur with this drive too.. 3. Last, I tried to check with my Windows ME. and it happened too. The CD-RW is quiet new. Is it possible that some how even though the second device doesn't work they confuse each other? Although it happeneds in Windows too I don't think that there is a problem with the devices themselves. Yuval Scharf On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: On Friday 22 August 2003 21:42, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Scharf Yuval wrote: DMA is enabled. I've just checked again that it is connected to the sound card. Are you low on memory? It could be that the HD activity is the system doing a lot of memory swapping. Everything freezes for a second when there is heavy swapping. Is is possible there is a mm app trying to grab the attention of the sound card?Maybe arts, esd or such? Have to admit to be guessing, because I believe youare correct in what you say.The cd player should say Please send this cd along that cable to the sound card. and it happen without much 'thought'. -- Tom Wesley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
