Re: hdd & sound

Jonathan Masters (mastersj@periscope-systems.freeserve.co.uk)
Sat, 07 Aug 1999 22:33:38 +0100

I disagree. I doubt it's hardware, more likely something is fucked up in the
kernel causing heavy disk usage to fuck with sound. BEAR IN MIND: this happens
whenever I write a CD/copy large volumes of data whilst playing wavs/raw/mp3, with
esd on OR OFF (so it aint esd) - and no heavy CPU usage (typically load is under
20% CPU usage).

periscope:
PII 400
128Mb RAM
FIRST BUILT IN MBOARD HD CONTROLLER:

MASTER:
hda: FUJITSU MPC3064AT, 6187MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=788/255/63, UDMA
1 x 6.4Gb IDE (32Bit IO/UDMA - 128 Mb SWAP/other crap)

SLAVE:
hdb: FUJITSU MPD3108AT, 10300MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1313/255/63 (***********LOOK -
NO UDMA - BUT ITSUPPORTS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
1 x 10.8Gb IDE (32Bit IO/THE DAMM THING SUPPORTS UDMA,
BUT LINUX HATES IT ON THIS DRIVE!!! - BRAND NEW DRIVE - 128 Mb
SWAP/other crap)

SECONDARY MBOARD CONTROLLER:

MASTER:
hdc: CRW9420, ATAPI CDROM drive
4x4x20x CD-ReWriter

SECONDARY:
hdd: ASUS CD-S340, ATAPI CDROM drive
34x CDROM

PCI Network Card (100BaseT)
ISA SB 64 AWE GOLD
ATI ALL IN WONDER PRO
FLOPPY/other crap/etc...

Will supply any further info if requested.

Wakko Warner wrote:

> > I reported a very similar problem a while back, but since no-one listens to
> > little old me, what's the point in me telling you my problem again :(
>
> I think it's more hardware than anything. Either that or an irq conflict
> between pci and isa.
>
> > > I'm noticing this one one of my machines. When writing to a hard drive, the
> > > sound drags. The machine I'm on has piix4 ide and an isa scsi card. I'm
> > > playing sounds from the drive on the scsi card (aha1510 I think is the scsi
> > > card). I tried writing to both an ide and scsi drive, both drag the sound.
> > > Sound card is an SB16 pnp /w ide port (not disablable unfortunately). I had
> > > a similar problem on an isa ide card playing sounds off of the hard drive
> > > (like 44k 16bit 2ch sound off the drive, sound card was an ess card). My
> > > home box that this is happneing on is 2.2.7. The one with the isa ide is no
> > > longer active, but it was running 2.0.36.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
> > >
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> > Jonathan C. Masters (jonathan@oxlug.org)
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> >
> > "Upon this rock I will build my church,
> > and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".
> >
> > -- Matthew 16, 17-18
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

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Jonathan C. Masters                     (jonathan@oxlug.org)
                                        PGP: www.brookes.ac.uk/~95227860/KEY


           "Upon this rock I will build my church,
            and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".


                 -- Matthew 16, 17-18








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