From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264396AbUHJLth (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:49:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264419AbUHJLth (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:49:37 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:34731 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264396AbUHJLtf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:49:35 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:49:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200408061330.i76DU2Tm005937@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20040806151017.GG23263@suse.de> <20040810084159.GD10361@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040810101123.GB2743@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-187-164-3.dd.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lKLqFrX77cqh94R2hF5HPjZMlEY= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Mouw writes: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:41:59AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >> It's not exactly fun if everything can do 48X but your favorite OS >> (Linux 2.4) is limited to say 8X because it only does PIO in spite of >> hdparm settings and everything else. > > FWIW, we burn CDs at 40x with a 2.4 kernel. It is however a hardware or > driver related issue: no problems whatsoever with VIA IDE interfaces, > but only PIO with the CD writer connected to a Promise 20268. Problems with ATAPI devices on Promise cards are common, even Promise admits that. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se