On Saturday 03 April 2004 06:16, Syd Hancock wrote:
Do you have good 8x media?
I think I lost you there, I was referring to CD burning speeds, my poor ole drive can only handle 2x on DVD-R
I have also read somewhere that for fast burning speeds the DVD should be the only drive on the ide channel which should be >= 100 speed and it should be connected with an 80-pin cable - which sounds like the belt-and-braces-and-kitchen-sink approach to me :-) But if it works...
Hmmm a valid point about the 80 conductor cable, Maybe that's why DMA mode keeps dropping out on me, so used to my old optical drives that only need a 40 conductor that I may have overlooked that.
I don't know enough about 4x/8x dvd data burning speeds to know if the ide bus speed can really be a bottleneck - can anyone give some info here please?
1X-CLV (1.385 MB/s) so 8X would be 11.08MB/s
ATA-1 4.16 MB/s ATA-2 16.67 MB/s ATA-3 (same as above but with SMART) ATA-4, ATA/33 UDMA 33.33 MB/s ATA-5, ATA/66 66.67 MB/s ATA-6 ATA/100 100MB/s and so on.
You are unlikely to encounter the first 3 in any machine running Linux today, so if the ATA interface is performing to spec (unlikely) and there is only one drive being accessed on each channel then No the bus shouldn't be a bottleneck.