[Gllug] DVD's supporting DMA?
Martin A. Brooks
martin at hinterlands.org
Fri May 20 21:06:39 UTC 2005
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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