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From: Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:16:31
Message-Id: 45C37E12.6040605@gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow by "Nelson
1 Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote:
2 >> -----Original Message-----
3 >> From: Jakob Buchgraber [mailto:jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com]
4 >> Sent: 01 February 2007 19:16
5 >> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
6 >> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow
7 >>
8 >>
9 >
10 > ... snip ...
11 >
12 >
13 >> Hey everybody!
14 >>
15 >> I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.19 (gentoo sources) a few days
16 >> ago however I
17 >> can't get my DVD Drive working correctly.
18 >>
19 > ... snip ...
20 >
21 >> Btw.: It worked perfectly well under openSUSE 10.2 (don't have it
22 >> installed anymore, so I can't check which drivers were used)
23 >> and gentoo
24 >> kernel 2.6.18-r6 (I also used the ATA_PIIX driver there).
25 >>
26 >> Any hints?
27 >>
28 >> Cheers,
29 >> Jay
30 >> --
31 >> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
32 >>
33 >>
34 >>
35 >
36 >
37 > When you say you cant get it working correctly what exactly do you mean? Do you mean it's slow when reading or writing CDs/DVDs? Or do you mean you can't access it at all? What sort of methods did you use to test its speed?
38 >
39 > AFAIK 33MB/s should be fine for a DVD drive - 16x is approx 21MB/s, *theoretically* so I doubt it will ever even reach that.
40 >
41 > --
42 > djn
43 >
44 >
45 Hi, thanks for replying!
46
47 I get 2x DVD writing speed
48 I get 500KB/s to 1,5 MB/s reading speed.
49
50 I can mount and access it, but it's just SLOW.
51
52 Any hints?
53
54 Cheers,
55 Jay
56 --
57 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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