Burning needs

[domestiko]

Petri Pennanen wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 05:20 -0500, volvoguy wrote:
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>>On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:21:06 -0500, Jeramy Rutley <jrutley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Try grip.  It works great.
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>>grip's documentation suggests that ripping speed can be doubled by
>>using scsi emulation, but I didn't see any change at all. Does anyone
>>have speed improvement tips that aren't covered by grip's
>>documentation and mailing list?
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>>If this is getting too off-topic, feel free to contact me directly or
>>move this over to the sounder list. Also a bit off-topic, how can you
>>set the DMA status for a drive and make it "stick"? The "disks" tool
>>under System Configuration doesn't seem to save the changes made
>>there.
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>This is techical discussion for Ubuntu users. I think we are on topic.
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>To get the DMA status to stick you should edit /etc/hdparm.conf
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>	sudo nano /etc/hdparm.conf
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>make sure you have
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>        /dev/hdc {
>                dma = on
>        }
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>Then press Ctrl + O and Ctrl + X.
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>- Petri
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Should I know what DMA is? I have the same problem of low speed when 
encoding in Grip, so, had I better make this trick for sticking DMA?

Do I feel like knowing very little? :)

I  keep on learning