CD Burner possessed by the Dark Spawn of Satan
I needs help with this. When I first installed slackware, I burnt an ISO of Knoppix(this has nothing to do with my current probelm). It burnt at 52x, my burner's top speed. I got some LG 52x24x52 burner, and it worked great before.
Since then I've recompiled my kernel(this most likely has something to do with it). I'm quite sure I didn't screw anything up(if you know of an option I may have messed up on, tell me though :D ). At any rate, I'm thinking some value somewhere must have got reset. The damnable thing burns at about 16x now. And it doesn't even stay that high, it fluctuates between that and around 5x. I managed to burn off a CD like that, and it seemed to read okay afterwards, but there's hardly a point in having a 52x burner and only burn at ~5-16x. :( Here's some information that may or may not be useful: Command I'm using: cdrecord -v -dummy speed=52 dev=0,0,0 -data KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-14-EN.iso It works the same with or without the dummy flag. And it does the same thing when I set the speed to 0. cdrecord -scanbus output: Code:
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Code:
/dev/hdd: Code:
/dev/hdd: If any more info is needed, I'll try my best to supply it. I need to get this fixed. Thanks. :D At any rate, I'll be knocking myself unconcious soon on my bed for the night. So my replies may not be too swift. :) |
Sorry about your luck
LG Burners tend to be media pickey try a different brand of cdr media. liteon, asus, and plextor make some of the best cd burners I have ever used. Compaq uses LG burners and we know compaq is junk. I will never buy another LG burner agen.:tisk:
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Same media? Same burner? Same distro and software? Different kernels?
Seems like parms got set differently between the two kernels, 32-bit is right, DMA being off is troublesome, but it looks right in hdparm -i output, but then again hdparm returns unreliable results on everything but IDE hard drives, so don't necessarily trust it. Have you got the same outputs on the original kernel to compare it to? Cheers, Finegan |
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Try the force dma option in the ide section of the kernel setup:scratch:
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It seems to work now.
Code:
Track 01: 698 of 698 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 53.2x. I recompiled my kernel and set it to default to DMA for all drives(or something like that). Aside from having a little trouble getting my internet connection back up(decided to turn a few things into modules), everything went okay. I'm probably going to recompile again soon though(not messing with DMA settings this time :) ) to slim it down a little more. Is 1.088Mb a little big for a kernel? Or am I obsessing? Oh well, thanks for all the help. :D |
1.088Mb is good you are smaller than me
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