Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources...

[Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>]

OK, but doesn't a CD-ROM have a read-ahead setting?


On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 02:40, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 October 2002 21:51, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> > Perhaps dma wasn't the problem.  Here's the output when I execute hdparm
> > on /dev/hdc (my CD-RW):
> >
> > /dev/hdc:
> >  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
> >  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
> >  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
> >  using_dma    =  1 (on)
> >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> >  readonly     =  0 (off)
> >  BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
> >  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > When I try to retrieve the read-ahead setting: hdparm -a /dev/hdc I get:
> >
> > /dev/hdc:
> >  BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
> 
> There are some settings which do not apply to cdroms, one of which is 
> BLRAGET, the other shown above is geometry settings of which a cdrom has not, 
> so that will fail as well.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Richard
> pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> 
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