Mandrake 10.1 DMA mode, CDwriter problem
 

Hello!

I am using Mandrake 10.1 and I was trying to use K3B to burn my files to CD. Well, I configured the recorder speed to 48X, however when I try to burn a cd, the program gets stuck and return an error 252 or something. I searched the forum and in there somewhere people mentioned about turning on the DMA mode. I know how to do it on Windows, but not on Linux. Please tell me how to enable DMA mode and resolve my cd burning issue.

Thanks

you can use the hdparm command. type 'hdparm -d <device>' where device is your CD burner (/dev/hdc or something) to see the current using_dma flag status, do 'hdparm -d 1 <device>' to turn on dma, 'hdparm -d 0 <device>' to turn off the dma.

greetz,
.-=~ iluvatar ~=-.

my Mandrake 10.1 doesn't know the hdparm command

Is there a special package to install to make it work ?

Thanx a lot !

Matt

sorry, had to log in as root and go to /

but I have other problems now...