cdburning/hdd speed trouble

crashmeister · 11-29-2002, 06:35 AM

I got some trouble with my hdd - I think.Got a samsung hdd, a lg burner and mobo with a sis730 chipset.The burner does rarely 32x normally I end up with something about 16x or less.But once in a while it does it.So the burner should be ok.When I burn a cd fifo always drops to 1% while the hdd isn't doing too much.Then it wakes up and fills the buffer in no time.Usually get about 10 buffer underruns per cd.The same thing happens when I simulate a burn.
hdparm -t shows about 26MB/sec.

acid_kewpie · 11-29-2002, 06:38 AM

are the drives on the same ide channel? if they are, put them on different ones.

crashmeister · 11-29-2002, 07:38 AM

They are on different channels.Did all the hdparm stuff in the meantime.That didn't do any good.It looks to me like I have a problem with a fragmented partition.Took one avi with 700 mb and moved it to a partition I deleted before.Works like a charm there.Buffer minimum is 98%.