On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 07:31 -0500, Patrick wrote: > Can someone please tell me what I forgot or missed here? > What is the best way to connect these components... should > the burner be alone on a ide channel or can it combined?? Have you tried booting with the "ide=nodma" kernel option? If I boot my machine with DMA enabled I can't read past precisely 201906176 bytes on media in either of my DVD drives. (Incidentally, this seems to be the point where the drive switches to high speed.) I can write DVD/CD media without any error. When I disable DMA the media that I had previously written checks out fine. In my case it does not occur if I use the ide-scsi driver with the device. (Although ide-scsi has some other strange side effects such as not ejecting media.) Also, I can enable DMA once the system is up and running without any ill effects. I added a "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX" line for each IDE device to /etc/rc.local (where X is a-h). I can only guess that something occurs during init that scrambles either my IDE controller or DVD drives if DMA is enabled. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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