[Gllug] DVD's supporting DMA?

[Martin A. Brooks]

Rich Walker wrote:

>Does anyone know which DVD writers perform *well* under Linux? And by
>*well*, I mean "writing under DMA is supported so writing doesn't bring
>the machine to a juddering halt".
>  
>

That has nothing to do with your DVD writer.  Buy a motherboard with a 
properly supported IDE chipset and you won't have a problem (assuming 
your kernel is configured correctly).

>The machine is running 2.4.28 - maybe that's the problem?
>  
>

The 2.6 kernel series offer much improved IDE hardware support. YMMV.
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