dma on as default

[François Patte]

Paul Smith a écrit :
> On 8/28/06, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> 

>>
>> What is exactly your problem? Do you have SATA HD? Is it a laptop?
> 
> 
> Thanks, François. The problem is that if I do not set dma on, my dvd
> burner works _extremly_ slow. I do not have any SATA HD and it is not
> a laptop.

Did you try hdparm -c1 /dev/hdx (where hdx is the device your dvd is
linked to)?

And try burning a dvd.

Can you read a dvd "normally" with xine without a lot of frame being
dropped?

-- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris 5 - Paris
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte