Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:34:32
Message-Id: 200707112126.00499.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl by "b.n."
1 Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:28 schrieb b.n.:
2 > Florian Philipp ha scritto:
3 > > Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d
4 > > /dev/dvd as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it
5 > > using hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd.
6 >
7 > Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, because of three optical drives,
8 > only the dvd writer (/dev/hda) seems to have gone with dma off. I turned
9 > it on now, I'll try to see if there's a difference. How could have it
10 > happened?
11 >
12 > m.
13
14 Look at dmesg or your log files. Maybe there was some kind of error.