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Hello - I'm runnig SuSE 8.1 -> My burner works but ineffeciently. It uses nearly ALL of my 2.53 Ghz processor... I have 512 Mb RAM and am using a ...
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  1. 06-23-2003 #1
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    Poor CD burning performance

    Hello -
    I'm runnig SuSE 8.1 -> My burner works but ineffeciently. It uses nearly ALL of my 2.53 Ghz processor... I have 512 Mb RAM and am using a genuine INTEL chipset. The burner is a 40x write, 12x rewrite and 52x read (think) Why is this using all my processor??

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    What program are you using and what are you burning?
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  3. 06-23-2003 #3
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    K3b

    I'm using k3b and it is the same when I'm burning music, ISO, or custom data CD's

    If it helps any the same thing happens when it's readin from the CD - when I'm playing quake 3 or Diablo II the movies will skip and become out of sync - this is the case with both cd drives
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    That seems pretty extreme, but check anyway so that DMA has been enabled on your CD with "hdparm -d /dev/hdc" (if your CD isn't hdc, just replace it).
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    hdparm -

    well being one step ahead of you I had alrady tried this - "DMA not supported by this device"

    SCSI emulation has been enabled so that I can burn - I have /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1(burner)
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    Are you using the standard SuSE kernel? Chances are that it doesn't include support for your IDE chipset. Would you mind recompiling your kernel?
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    recompiling -

    Yes, i'm using the default SuSE kernel - I've never recompiled the kernel before but I'm pretty confident that it shouldn't be a problem. What do you suggest to try to make this work?
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    Make sure to compile support for your IDE chipset. If you don't know which one you have, check with /sbin/lspci.
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