[mythtv-users] SLow CD Reads

[Nathan Ziarek]

Is this true for Mandrake as well?

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-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Brent Norris
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:12 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] SLow CD Reads

You may have already done this, but RH by default will not let you
enable DMA on cd drives.  You need to add this to modules.conf

options ide-cd dma=1

that usually helps this out a lot.

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 00:22, Cedar McKay wrote:
> I have the same problem. In addition, when playing from the cd in 
> mythmusic it will play for 3-5 seconds, pause, and play for another few 
> seconds and so on. I've been messing with dma settings (so far 0 and 1) 
> which seems to have no effect. I have also been messing with hdc boot 
> params. So far I've tried:
> append="hdc=ide-scsi"
> and
> append="hdc=cdrom"
> 
> 
> the first (which was the red hat default) didn't work at all. See my 
> previous mythmusic pleas.
> 
> the second got it sort of working but I still have these pauses.
> 
> 
> let me know if you figure anything out.
> 
> 
> cedar
> 
> 
> On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 10:03  PM, Nathan Ziarek wrote:
> 
> > In MythMusic, when ripping tracks, the % bars goes a few real quick - 
> > like
> > 1-3% and then stalls while the CD read light is on. Then it jumps a 
> > little
> > more...making it take 2-3minutes a track, which seems slow. It is a 
> > 40X CD
> > drive, but about 4 years old and from a lab machine; it got beat-up. 
> > Is it
> > the problem or could it be something incorrectly set uP?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nate
> >
> >
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