Re: DVD-RAM + Linux?

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_binaryfoundry.ca)
Date: 08/28/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:31:39 -0400

    Lasse Jensen wrote:
    > The Real Slim Shady wrote:
    >
    >
    >>On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:55:07 +0200, Lasse Jensen wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>I have a problem with my Toshiba SD-W1101 DVD-RAM drive. Reading CD's,
    >>>DVD's and DVD-RAM disks works fine, but when i write, my system start to
    >>>run encridible slow. I didn't have that problem when i used a Panasonic
    >>>drive and top doesn't show any processes hogging the CPU time.
    >>
    >>Are you using dma?
    >
    >
    > How do i set that for SCSI devices? hdparm won't let me do it.

    It's not necessary under SCSI.

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