Extremely slow burning in K3B (Jim McQuiston)

[Francis Viviers]

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:39, 'Forum Post, '@wailuku.xlogicgroup.com 
wrote:
> Hey guys; had similar problem: slow burning on both CD and DVD
> (600kb/sec CD, 1200kb/sec DVD kind of speeds) that was fixed by
> enabling DMA on the cd drive (/dev/hdb in my case).  I'm not using SCSI
> emulation, nor running it as root via kdesu or similar.
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> Think this might have been said in other threads but its here just in
> case!
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> theToolman

Well its not just dma, turn on 32bit mode and will work even faster. 
The /etc/init.d/hdparm script just turns on dma on startup, this means that 
no 32 bit transfers is possible, which increases multitasking performance 
also.

Thanks

Francis Viviers