Burning needs

[Petri Pennanen]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 21:20 +0100, domestiko wrote:
> Petri Pennanen wrote:
> >To get the DMA status to stick you should edit /etc/hdparm.conf
> >	
> >	sudo nano /etc/hdparm.conf
> >
> >make sure you have
> >
> >        /dev/hdc {
> >                dma = on
> >        }
> >
> >Then press Ctrl + O and Ctrl + X.
> >
> >- Petri
> >
> >
> 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?

DMA is short for Direct Memory Acess. Wikipedia explains it better than
I can:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access

Having DMA enabled will probably give a speed increase and reduce
"stuttering". The reason it isn't enabled by default is that it's
unstable for some devices. You can try switching it on and off with
hdparm

On:	
	sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
Off:
	sudo hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc

The part about sticking is intended to make hdparm remember the setting
between reboots.

> Do I feel like knowing very little? :)
> 
> I  keep on learning

I know that feeling. Google, manpages and this list are a great help,
but they do tend to make me a bit lazy ;)

- Petri