gnomebaker audio CD copy verrrrry slow

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 04:10 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> Turning DMA on is very necessarily because it affects the whole system
> speed and responsiveness 

??? :-O

> whenever you access the CD not just for CD
> ripping, but also watching DVD, running programs from the CD, copying
> to the CD, or listening to Audio CD 

Ah, yes. This was my point Ziyad... in practice, I rarely ever get to
use the CD drive at all ! 
The only time I have to use it, is to install Ubuntu !  And the
installer needs only about 5 minutes to copy all the packages to the
hard disk, so that's okay by me. Even if DMA would make it say 2 minutes
or whatever, that wouldn't change things much, since copying the
packages isn't the most time consuming phase of the install process
anyway. (unpacking and setting everything up, is).

> 
> So, please make sure your CD-ROM is always DMA enabled.
> Setting DMA is usually the responsibility of the system BIOS, however
> some BIOS don't turn DMA on for CD-ROM devices (my system is one of
> those), so you have to relay on the Operating System to do that.

Okay okay, I will have a look in the BIOS and if nothing relates to DMA
in there, I will modify hdparm.conf ...


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Vince, rebooting...