Re: PROBLEM: CD burning at 12x uses excessive CPU, although DMA is enabled

From: Anssi Saari (as@sci.fi)
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 11:29:14 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:58:09PM +0200, Markus Plail wrote:
 
> If you write CDs in RAW modes, then there's the problem with the high
> loads. Examples:
> - cdrecord -raw96r/p (2448 bytes/sector)
> - cdrecord -raw16 (2368 bytes/sector)
> - cdrdao --driver generic-mmc-raw (2368 bytes/sector)
 
Yes, this is confirmed. I tried writing a data track with cdrecord
-raw96r mode and got the slowdown. So yes, it seems that "big" blocks,
2352 bytes and greater cause this problem while "small" blocks of 2048
bytes don't.

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