CD Burning woes: pulling my already sparse hair out...

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:35:23 +0200, Niki Kovacs 
  <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm an ex-Slacker (100% GNU/Linux since 2001) recently converted to
> Ubuntu. I like that distro, though there's one annoying (and severe) bug
> in Breezy that's a real PITA: burning.
>
> I installed Breezy in "expert" mode and gave "-d1" as disk parameter
> during install. hdparm /dev/hdc gives this:
>
> /dev/hdc:
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  readahead    = 256 (on)
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
>
> So I *think* dma is on, wouldn't you? But then, here's the output of
> cdrecord:
>
This may be a silly question, but is DMA enabled on /dev/hda?


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