Re: ide-cd turning off DMA when verifying DVD-R

[Robert Hancock]

Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> I think the drive just takes too long to recongize the disc. My 4163B has
> the same problem which is why I always close the tray manually or with
> eject -t and wait a while before mounting or burning the disc. Of course
> that won't help in your case. I guess the real fix would be to
> increase some ide-cd timeout.

I'm thinking the IDE code is too aggressive in assuming that the failure 
 is because of a DMA problem and disabling it.. Most likely all that's 
happening is the drive is taking a long time to complete the current 
command.

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