F7t4 KDE live CD test report

dragoran dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Tue May 1 21:16:37 UTC 2007


On 5/1/07, Doncho N. Gunchev <gunchev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 2007-05-01 23:21:53 dragoran dragoran wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Doncho N. Gunchev <gunchev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 2007-05-01 21:52:04 you wrote:
> > > >   I installed F7t4 from the KDE live CD, my hardware profile is:
> > > > ebf36068-3809-426c-ade0-d0c531b5b402. Here are the results:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > >   Suspend to ram did not work with any kernel. In most cases, when
> the
> > >
> > > ...
> > > I think it has something to do with the new IDE /should I say SCSI
> ;-)/
> > > disk
> > > driver. It complains that something is not supported...
> > >
> > > OT: Now, when hdparm -d 0/1 does nothing, how can I switch DMA on/off
> for
> > > my
> > > DVD-Writer and hard disk?
> >
> > there is no reason to turn it off the new driver should select and set
> the
> > best dma mode that your drive/chipset supports; if not its a bug.
> >
>
> I know it should (remember when these settings got removed from
> /etc/sysconfig/*?), that's why I asked 'how?'. My DVD-Writer seems
> to not use any DMA at all (~1MB/sec vs >4MB/sec in FC6). How do
> I know if it uses "the best mode", if I can't try any other?


its simple a higher dma mode means higher speed.
what does hdparm -i /dev/yourdevice show?
(both fc6 and f7 output) ?

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>   Doncho
>
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