[CentOS] Only 1.2x when burning DVD

[Jim Perrin]

On 4/18/07, Johnny Ljunggren <ml at bitl.no> wrote:
> I've got a Matshita dvd-ram uj-830sx that is performing very bad on my
> freshly installed CentOS 5. I'm using k3b and get a steady 1.2x which is
> way too slow. I think it is supposed to do ~8x and the discs are 16x.
> Any suggestions?
> (hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hdc turned on 32-bit IO but only helped slightly)

It this a SATA drive, or does it use the ata_piix driver? If so, you
may have to make some slight modifications to /etc/modprobe.conf and
add a kernel boot option.

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