ICH6M SATA and poor optical drive performance

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Øyvind Stegard wrote:

>> Any tips on getting a vanilla kernel running up to speed?
> You could base the 2.6.14.3 config on the config of the newest FC4 kernel,
> using make oldconfig .. I'd go through manually, though, and sanity check
> the everything afterwords. And if you're going to roll your own kernel, I
> would remove all the cruft, while I was at it. There's a lot. I usually go
> through the entire kernel configuration manually, and set things the way I
> like it.

That worked nicely, thanks for the tip.  My cd burner is seen as a scsi
device and I get full performance.  Now it's time to play the waiting game
(to see if I get any lock ups).

> Øyvind

-- Christopher