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Am Wednesday 28 December 2005 18:59 schrieb Gustavo Guillermo Pérez:
El Miércoles, 28 de Diciembre de 2005 11:24, Gerald Lutter escribió:
So weird I'm using the same kernel on gentoo too, and pktcdvd goes fine, with my external case, anyway I guess is not related to pktcdvd is your drive, cause I can write on +rw 4X -> 1.5 ~ 2.0 MB/s and is a very good data rate. Why you do not try with a +rw media instead of dvd+ram?
I tried using a dvd+rw medium but the result was the same. I couldn't get the drive to work with pktcdvd. Without this driver i have this weak performance. I also tried newer kernel versions (2.6.15-rc7 and 2.6.15-rc5-mm3). All results were the same. I will try to connect my drive via firewire but currently I don't have a firewire controler. Lets see if I can by one tomorrow.
Are you using a 2.0 USB Host? or connector, some mobos has 1.1 and 2.0 in separate conectors. And yes, my performance mentioned was using USB 2.0 and Firewire, (I'll stay with firewire).
Anyway without pktcdvd and +RW media my drive works as well at the same mentioned speed, does not matter if I'm using IDE, USB or FireWire Interfaces.
Yes I'm using an USB 2.0 Host. Reading from a filesystem on /dev/sr0 works with no performance issues. Even burning an ordinary CD or DVD works. The problem is that I didn't get pktcdvd working with my external drive because of the kernel messages mentioned in my first mail. Udev creates the device I've passed as an argument to pktsetup but I'm not able to mount it. Regards Gerald