[ale] Rehat 9 ide-scsi

[Christopher Fowler]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Yes, it actually does if your using the IDE device directly.  Since it
> sounds like your using ide-scsi emulation then I can't answer since I
> haven't looked at a SCSI device with hdparm.  Try:
> hdparm -I /dev/yourSCSIdev
> and see what you get under the dma setting.  If it isn't set for
> /dev/hdc or /dev/sg0 (whatever your dev is for SCSI) then you can set
> it.
> 
> hdparm -d1 /dev/sg0
> 
> I've never had a problem with burning under Linux or IRIX using
> cdrecord.  Could be your drive and the XP driver compensates somehow. 
> What burner do you have?
> Dow

One is a  Hi-val.  The other is an burning that came with
my HP Laptop.

> 
> 
> >>> cfowler at outpostsentinel.com 08/28/03 20:23 PM >>>
> My biggest problem is getting good burns.  I never seem to get
> a good burn in Linux like I do in XP.  I'll allways get SCSI 
> retry error messages.  "Its the media" people say.  If that is the
> case why does XP burn on anythng I throw at it.  I think it is the fact
> the driver may have issues.  
> 
> Does the dma setting have anything to do with burning.  I'm tired of
> booting into XP to burn damn it!
> 
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:48:23PM -0600, Chris Egolf wrote:
> > I found this link:
> > 
> > http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/RedHat8.0TipsTricks
> > 
> > Step #7 talks about enabling DMA for CD/DVD drives.  I think the same
> thing 
> > applies for RH9.0 too.
> > 
> > Dow Hurst wrote:
> > >In Redhat 9, where do you put the ide-scsi=hdc command?  I'm used to 
> > >SuSE and in /etc/sysconfig/ there is a file for that purpose.  You
> can 
> > >put which IDE devices should be treated with the SCSI emulation.  I 
> > >can't find this under RedHat.  There is a hwinfo file that shows what
> is 
> > >currently configured but not a place for defining the configuration. 
> I 
> > >was avoiding modifying /etc/grub.conf since I thought RedHat might
> have 
> > >provided a more elegant way of managing this.  I am just too used to 
> > >German engineering?  Anyway, I just want /dev/hdc emulated as a SCSI 
> > >device.
> > >Dow
> > >
> > 
> > -- 
> >
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