Re: [CFT] Bus mastering support for IDE CDROM audio

Robert Love
2002-01-27T21:16:10Z

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 03:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Reading audio from IDE CDROMs always uses PIO. This patch
> teaches the kernel to use DMA for the CDROMREADAUDIO ioctl.
> [...]
> This code has not been tested for its effects upon SCSI-based
> CDROM readers. It needs to be.

Andrew,

I wanted to confirm success of testing the patch with a SCSI CD-ROM
(Plextor UltraPlex Wide on aic7xxx). I used your updated patch off your
website.

Audio rip completed without error. Performance seems the same, which I
assume is to be expected with SCSI readers.

Robert Love