On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:59:37PM +0100, Rasputin wrote:
> I found similar issues with a Memorex Sixteen-MAXXi, which is supposed to suport
> PIO4/Dm2 (according to dmesg) - first CD produced is always a coaster, then
>  the driver downgrades to PIO4 and works reliably.
> 
> I worked around it by disabling DMA entirely, but it's very annoying, since the
> drive supposedly burns at sixteen speed.... is it worth trying to force UltraDMA,
> or is that meaningless for atapi drives?

Some controllers support it without trouble. My i810 has no problems,
SIS620 also looks fine ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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