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From: Matias Grana <matiasg@××××××.ar>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD recording speed is awfully low
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:48:02
Message-Id: 20061018154342.GC7649@dm.uba.ar
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD recording speed is awfully low by Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
1 On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:39:10AM +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
2 > On Thursday 19 October 2006 0:26, Matias Grana wrote:
3 > > I'm recording a DVD which is capable of doing 16x, using k3b. Before
4 > > starting, k3b explicitly said:
5 > > Writing speed: 22713 KB/s (16,40x)
6 > > but then, it began writing at speeds between 0.5x and 0.9x, so it took
7 > > me about 2 hours to record.
8 > > Before I begin writing the next 2 dvds I need to, I beg for any advise
9 > > as to how correct this.
10 >
11 > Is DMA enabled for this drive? Does anything odd appear in dmesg?
12 >
13 > --
14 > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
15 > --
16
17 I think this is the relevant part of dmesg. I don't see anything strange here,
18 but perhaps you do.
19
20 NFORCE2-U400R: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
21 NFORCE2-U400R: chipset revision 163
22 NFORCE2-U400R: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
23 NFORCE2-U400R: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
24 NFORCE2-U400R: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a3) UDMA133 controller
25 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
26 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
27 Probing IDE interface ide0...
28 hda: ST3160021A, ATA DISK drive
29 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
30 hdb: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
31 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
32 Probing IDE interface ide1...
33 Probing IDE interface ide1...
34 hda: max request size: 512KiB
35 hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
36 hda: cache flushes supported
37 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
38 hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
39 Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
40
41 Also, when I booted there was a message saying that it couldn't load ide-cd. I
42 can't find that message now. I don't have ide-cd compiled into the kernel nor
43 as a module, though.
44
45 Matías
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD recording speed is awfully low Joe Menola <menola@×××××××××.net>