linux-kernel - Re: Again... DMA speed too slow

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Message-ID: <20080414182918.4779b8ea@core>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:29:18 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Joerg.Schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, htejun@...il.com
Subject: Re: Again... DMA speed too slow

> OK, I know that a few drives give wrong DMA speed test results on Solaris,
> so the behavior for these drives seems to be unrelated to the OS.

Controllers don't always get DMA ATAPI right things like that - not
trivial little speed test details.

> I am not sure why you mention the term "brave", is it because all known Linux 
> distributions still require suid root? In this case, I encourage you to inform

Last time I checked almost all cd burning was being done non root.

Alan
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