[Lancaster] Re CD burning

[Tim Churchill]

When I said <I wouldn't recommend trying to do anything much
else while burning is in progress unless you have a very fast PC> I 
was referring to the fact that reviewers often state proudly that 
"XYZ's Burner could not be persuaded to make a beer mat despite doing 
other things whilst the CD was being burnt", but because of the 
priority given by the software it is a waste of time trying really.

DMA with burners puzzles me. Under Win98 I had a 1.2 GHz PC producing 
2 CDs at once at 16x burning. On the same PC with XP I can't get one 
to burn reliably at 16x. The reason is that I can't get DMA set for 
the IDE controller - it is greyed out. On Win 98 the DMA setting was 
on the burner driver. I have a 2nd 2GHz PC with Win XP that sets DMA 
quite happily! Perhaps Linux is more intelligent in its use of DMA?

Tim.



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