From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264581AbTLQV6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:58:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264583AbTLQV6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:58:45 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:45837 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264581AbTLQV6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:58:44 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: no atapi cdrecord burning with 2.6.0-test11-bk10 / bk13 Date: 17 Dec 2003 21:47:12 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <200312171141.18132.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20031217164933.GB2495@suse.de> <200312171227.53913.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1071697632 7975 192.168.12.62 (17 Dec 2003 21:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200312171227.53913.gene.heskett@verizon.net>, Gene Heskett wrote: | I'm using /dev/hdc for burning in the k3b configuration screens, | however that path may actually be defined. I haven't quite "grok"ed | all the details, but it works, and works with <10% of the cpu | involved when burning. | | To me, thats a roaring success :-) I'm burning on a 2.4 kernel, using ide-scsi, and taking <1% CPU at 16x burn, so you might check if your CD is set to use DMA, or if it's still doing PIO. I use about 10% doing an audio burn, which does use PIO in 2.4 AFAIK. You may be able to drop the CPU a good bit more. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.