System Requirements

[PhiloVivero]

Samuel Hocevar wrote:

> >      CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E (6x)
>
>    Did you enable DMA for this drive ? I suspect your crap performance
> come from this. You'll have to use hdparm(8) for this, it's probably a
> package in your distribution.
>
>    Assuming /dev/hdc is your DVD device:
>
>   * "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc" will activate (Ultra)DMA for your drive.
>
>   * "hdparm -c 1 /dev/hdc" will activate 32-bit transfers (instead of the
>    default 16-bit).
>
>   * "hdparm -X 34 /dev/hdc" (resp. "hdparm -X 66 /dev/hdc") will activate
>    DMA (resp. UltraDMA) mode 2 transfers.

You win!

That reduces clunkiness significantly. Now maybe a pause every minute or so,
but definitely watchable 99% of the time (which for me is good enough).

The saga continues...
    http://faemalia.org/do/pvwiki/show/GettingDVDWorkingUnderLinux

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