Re: CD-ROM + Modem = errrr...

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:08:07 +0200

At 10:10 15-07-99 +1000, Roddy wrote:
>
>Linux roddy 2.2.6 #3 Tue May 4 09:34:17 EST 1999 i686 unknown
>Debian (potato)
>
>I have a bit of a problem. Whenever I rip a cd onto my disk my modem link
>slows nearly to a halt. I have an IDE HD and CD-ROM and am using
>cdparanoia but I don't imagine it's a program problem but more a kernel
>problem. My modem is a 56K and it doesn't _seem_ to effect the network
>link I have to a second computer in my house (NIC). Using cdparanoia takes
>up 13% CPU (there abouts).
>Any suggestions/ideas/comments?

Yes, try unmasking IRQ's on the CD-ROM with hdparm.

-- 
* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> 
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer




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