Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:41:53 -0500 | From | Wes Janzen <> | Subject | Re: getting a working CD-drive in 2.6 |
| |
Stuart Longland wrote:
>Quoting Wes Janzen <superchkn@sbcglobal.net>: > > > >>Hi, >> >>Actually with 2.6, you no longer need ide-scsi. You'll need to upgrade >>your cdrecord tools and probably your burning GUI, if you use one.... >> >> >> > >Ahh okay, I wasn't aware of that. We use a SCSI burner anyways, but most of my... > > > And here's an even better reason to avoid ide-scsi in 2.6 (Jens sent this to the list, but I don't see it...):
>Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >That's because it _is_ faster. It contains no silly memory allocations >for the buffer and data copying in the kernel, the data is mapped from >the user buffer and DMA'ed directly from there. It also uses DMA where >ide-scsi wont. > >People generally report that they have no problems burning at full speed >(52) on even really old machines where ide-scsi maxed out long before. > > > Certainly that is true. The system was nearly unresponsive at 16X (on 2.4.18 SuSE) with my K6-2 400, but I can set it up to 32X now and I have no problems. My recorder never hits 32X with my media though, maxes out at around 20X but I can browse the web while burning with absolutely no fear of my buffer running dry (probably helps that it's a 8MB buffer but cdrecord still never reports it being low). That's a big change from 2.4.
-Wes Janzen-
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |