Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt | Date | Fri, 7 Nov 2003 03:13:53 -0600 |
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 13:45, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On 6 Nov 2003, bill davidsen wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by faster, burning runs at device limited > > speed in CPU time in the less than 1% range if you remember to enable > > DMA. The last time I looked DMA didn't work in either kernel if write > > size was not a multiple of 1k, (or 2k?) has that changed? > > DMA works fine > > IF YOU DON'T USE IDE-SCSI > > Don't use it. Please. There's no point. > > It's much more readable to do > > cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc > > than it is to do some stupid "scan SCSI devices" + "dev=0,1,0" or similar > totally incomprehensible crap that doesn't even work right. > > > I'm not sure what you meant by faster, so don't think I'm disagreeing > > with you. > > Faster as in "it uses DMA for everything, so you can actually burn at full > speed without having to worry about it or sucking up CPU". > > Linus
Note this still doesn't mean you can scroll large X windows for two or three seconds at a time without burning a coaster.
I had high hopes with the new scheduler, but no. (Maybe if I niced the heck out of cdrecord...)
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