Re: burning and dma

[Steven Isaacson <spisaacs@xxxxxxx>]

* Michael Smith (mismith@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> My burner drops out of DMA mode every time I burn a cd.  After I burn
> one, I check the drive using the command hdparm /dev/hdd, and almost
> every time, the drive has reverted to PIO mode.  I can fix the problem
> by using hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd, but that gets tedious if I want to burn
> more than a couple discs at a time.  Anyone have any ideas as to why
> this could be happening?  I'm using redhat 9, pretty much out of the box
> setup.  The problem is fairly recent.  It just started happening within
> the last couple days.

Do you get any error messages in any of the logs/dmesg when this
happens? It might be useful to search the kernel-mailing list with the
error you get. As with a quick search of "drop out of dma" I found a few
posts on the subject.

-steve
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