Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:12:24 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices |
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On Tue, Aug 10 2004, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:41:59AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > > It's not exactly fun if everything can do 48X but your favorite OS > > (Linux 2.4) is limited to say 8X because it only does PIO in spite of > > hdparm settings and everything else. > > FWIW, we burn CDs at 40x with a 2.4 kernel. It is however a hardware or > driver related issue: no problems whatsoever with VIA IDE interfaces, > but only PIO with the CD writer connected to a Promise 20268.
It's not a problem with data CDs, it's only a problem with non-512b aligned sector sizes (like audio CDs).
-- Jens Axboe
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