Re: [SLUG] Burning CD

From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 18:06:34 EDT


Ron KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> Another possible problem, one I have, is since my mommy board
> doesn't have an INTEL controller chip set, and my kernal doesn't
> support dma for my (VIA)IDE controller, my HD's operate in the
> pio mode. (slow)

It's not slow. It's just bothers the CPU for transfers. That can
lead to not much else getting done when you're transferring data.

> (never a coaster) I am going to patch my kernal to get dma or udma asap.

What is your current kernel version? Are you familar with
Hendrick's IDE backport?

-- TheBS

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