Re: no atapi cdrecord burning with 2.6.0-test11-bk10 / bk13

[bill davidsen]

In article <200312171227.53913.gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gene Heskett  <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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