Re: ISDN massive packet drops while DVD burn/verify

[Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:39:02PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On 06 May 2003 11:53:32 +0100
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Llu, 2003-05-05 at 18:26, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > > You mean UDMA 2 does not make it (which I had in the test case)?
> > 
> > But is the transfer being done in UDMA mode ?
> 
> 
> # hdparm -v /dev/hdc
> 
> /dev/hdc:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  BLKRAGET failed: Invalid argument
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
>  
> 
> using_dma means it's using dma for transfer, right?
> 

It should, but so far I know it cannot do every thing with
dma.
My writer use:

pingi2:~ # hdparm -v /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
 HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

And I see no problems.

At least you can try hdparm -u1 (use a RW media).

-- 
Karsten Keil
SuSE Labs
ISDN development