Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:57 pm, Ryan Moe wrote: Hmm, it appears my drive is using 16-bit IO mode. Is this a large factor in HD performance? ahhh yes 16 is half of 32 so it is about 1/2 speed /dev/hde: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:13, Tom Brinkman wrote: BUT, did you inspect those 8 mo. old caps? ...and why did the first mobo havt'a be replaced in the first place? ...caps? It's a damn shame 'cause Asus use to be reliable and high performance products. Among the OCr's favorites. Actually I

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 13 2003 12:09 am, Ryan Moe wrote: I have an Asus A7V133c m/b w/ an Athlon T-bird 1.3. It's not an OEM board. The other drives I have are /dev/hda some old shitty cd-rom, /dev/hdg a maxtor 30 gig running at ATA-100, /dev/hde a quantam 30 gig ATA-100. You think being less

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Ryan Moe
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 11:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 13 2003 12:09 am, Ryan Moe wrote: I have an Asus A7V133c m/b w/ an Athlon T-bird 1.3. It's not an OEM board. The other drives I have are /dev/hda some old shitty cd-rom, /dev/hdg a maxtor 30 gig running at ATA-100,

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 13 2003 12:45 pm, Ryan Moe wrote: IDE0 and IDE1 are just standard ATA-66 channels. I dunnn... think so, that's a ata/100 mobo My IDE2 and IDE3 are my ATA-100 channels thats why I have my HDs on those. I don't really have any use for my old CD-ROM so I might just

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:13:02 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe as I alluded to before, I think the problem is your controller card. It wasn't clear to me but I believe you've got 2 HDD's, 2 CD drives. Put your busiest, fastest HDD on hda (ide0-master), the other

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:08:10 -0600 Ryan Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it could be that my hd perhaps isn't configured correctly and the real bottleneck isn't my CDR eating up CPU but my HD eating up CPU to send data to the CDR. Can you post the output of # hdparm -ctT /dev/hde

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Ryan Moe
Hmm, it appears my drive is using 16-bit IO mode. Is this a large factor in HD performance? Anyhow here is the output from hdparm /dev/hde: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.37

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 13 Feb 2003 19:57:52 -0600 Ryan Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hde: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.37 seconds = 46.72 MB/sec Your hd read speeds are good so unless your

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-13 Thread Ryan Moe
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:59, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 13 Feb 2003 19:57:52 -0600 Ryan Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hde: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.37 seconds

[newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread ryan
Hi, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable DMA on my CD burner. Burning a CD brings my system to a halt and it takes around 10 minutes to copy data from CD to hd. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:16 pm, ryan wrote: Hi, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable DMA on my CD burner. Burning a CD brings my system to a halt and it takes around 10 minutes to copy data from CD to hd. Any help would be

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 12 2003 08:16 pm, ryan wrote: Hi, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable DMA on my CD burner. Burning a CD brings my system to a halt and it takes around 10 minutes to copy data from CD to hd. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ryan What

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:16 pm, ryan wrote: Hi, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable DMA on my CD burner. Burning a CD brings my system to a halt and it takes

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread RYan Moe
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 21:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 12 2003 08:16 pm, ryan wrote: Hi, for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable DMA on my CD burner. Burning a CD brings my system to a halt and it takes around 10 minutes to copy data from CD to hd. Any help

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:15 pm, RYan Moe wrote: Hi, I'm using 9.0, my drive is a Creative Labs 12/10/32 on /dev/hdc.I've turned DMA on for this drive by using hdparm and creating a harddiskhdc file. However anytime the drive is accessed

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Ryan Moe
Post the output from hdparm /dev/hdc Are you sure your burner is /dev/hdc? - -- Greg Yes, I'm positive it's /dev/hdc. Here is the output from hdparm. /dev/hdc: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on)

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 12 2003 10:15 pm, RYan Moe wrote: Hi, I'm using 9.0, my drive is a Creative Labs 12/10/32 on /dev/hdc.I've turned DMA on for this drive by using hdparm and creating a harddiskhdc file. However anytime the drive is accessed my CPU usage shoots up to around 75% (normally I

Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer

2003-02-12 Thread Ryan Moe
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 23:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 12 2003 10:15 pm, RYan Moe wrote: Hi, I'm using 9.0, my drive is a Creative Labs 12/10/32 on /dev/hdc.I've turned DMA on for this drive by using hdparm and creating a harddiskhdc file. However anytime the drive is