Mandrake 10.1 DMA mode, CDwriter problem

alirezan1 · 12-17-2004, 03:07 AM

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

iluvatar · 12-17-2004, 07:45 AM

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 ~=-.

matthias49 · 12-27-2004, 01:22 PM

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

matthias49 · 12-27-2004, 01:57 PM

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

but I have other problems now...