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. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell