Hi,

I recently installed k3b 0.10.2cvs in my system (woody 3.1/stable), and although I managed to get it to work fine (recognizing both my drives after some tweaking), I was left with a couple of questions:

1. After reading some of the cdrom/cdrw how-to's, I configured both my cdrom and cdwriter as IDE-scsi devices, as opposed to IDE-atapi. From what I understand, it would have been ok to leave the reader as an IDE-atapi device. What difference would it make to have the cdrom configured one way or the other?

2. Also, while gathering information from the net prior to installing k3b, I came across some posts where people said they had their cd-readers/writers using DMA. It seems to me that is something I should do too :-) (I'm a newbie, and want to learn as much as possible). How do I go about that??

Thanks in advance

"What difference would it make to have the cdrom configured one way or the other?"

IDE-atapi is read only. IDE-SCSI is read/write.

"they had their cd-readers/writers using DMA. How do I go about that?? "

You probably already are. In the early years of CD-ROM some CD-ROMs would not usually work with DMA turned on. So some device drivers turned DMA off for some CD-ROMS, but the developers left a way to turn DMA back on if you really wanted to try it. If you have a fairly recent CD device then the chances of DMA being turned off by the kernel driver are nill.


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