Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Erik Mouw
2004-08-10T10:11:39Z

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.

Erik

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