I use suse linux 11.2, x86_64 architecture
Linux 2.6.31.14-0.8-desktop
KDE 4.3.5
used on fujitsu siemens Xi 2428 laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600M GS video card, Intel Core™2 Duo CPU t7250 2.00GHz processor and 2GiB RAM.
Since two weeks, when i burn cd or dvd with k3b, the speed is under 1x!! if i choose 8X directly, the speed is also still under 1x. One dvd burn is more then one hour!
The extract with Ark the problem is same, very very slowly…
Copy to USB is too.
But everything else is run perfectly (starting program etc…)
I think the problem is DMA mode but i cant modify that because i get error messages:
I’ve already tried:
#/dev/sr0 : on
bash: /dev/sr0: Permission denied
and
#hdparm -d1 /dev/sr0
/dev/sr0:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Please help me because now I can’t burn CD under 2 hours or extract files in normal time!
So, I am not for sure, but the DMA setting may have worked with IDE drives, but not so sure when using a SATA interface. Further, I wonder why you have not considered an upgrade to openSUSE 11.4? Has your DVD/CD drive ever worked properly? Have you tried blowing the dust out of it using duster spray? How old is the drive? Might it have failed for some reason? Consider that with IDE DVD/CD drives, I used to have a very high failure rate. Now SATA versions are better, but dust is still a problem that can stop a drive from working properly. I would clean the drive and consider doing a clean install of openSUSE 11.4.
Hello jdmcdaniel3!
My DVD/CD drive was perfect, i wrote dvds under 15-20 minutes. The problem started two weeks ago.
Can I upgrade 11.4 from 11.2 without 11.3? Is this going to be repair my problem?
The drive and the notebook is 3 years old. So the problem not yust with dvd drive, when i try extract .rar, .zip or any other file the process is too slowly or when i copy for usb drive the copy is very slowy too!
In my experience 3 years is already a lifetime for a DVD drive in a laptop. Mine, though hardly ever used, never lasted longer than 2 years. You could check this by downloading a LiveCD, create a USB stick from it, boot from it, then test the drive. My guess is that the drive is at it’s end.
Hello jdmcdaniel3!
My DVD/CD drive was perfect, i wrote dvds under 15-20 minutes. The problem started two weeks ago.
Can I upgrade 11.4 from 11.2 without 11.3? Is this going to be repair my problem?
The drive and the notebook is 3 years old. So the problem not yust with dvd drive, when i try extract .rar, .zip or any other file the process is too slowly or when i copy for usb drive the copy is very slowy too!
I would attempt to clean that DVD player and its even time to blow the dust off of the cooling vents for the CPU. As for doing an upgrade, I would do a clean install, not upgrade. If you kept a separate /home area, you do not need to format it, but allow it to just be mounted, thus keeping your old settings, but I would not “upgrade” the root partition from 11.2.
Thank you, but the problem is not youst the dvd drive, extract 3-4 GB .rar is over 2 hours! And I can’t copy files if their size more than 1 GB because the system freezing after 4 hours. This problems are started two weeks ago at the same time so that why i think: the problem is not with the drive.
Thank you, but the problem is not youst the dvd drive, extract 3-4 GB .rar is over 2 hours! And I can’t copy files if their size more than 1 GB because the system freezing after 4 hours. This problems are started two weeks ago at the same time so that why i think: the problem is not with the drive.
Enyhe_linux, consider that it is very difficult to diagnose hardware problems without seeing the real thing. Subtle clues, which you do not report could make all of the difference here, but that is the way it goes. Also, CD/DVD players, like all hardware, just work great until they fail at a time of their own choosing, often unrelated to any recent task you have performed. As a long time PC user, you really would not believe how often these drives fail and how often a build-up of dust is to blame. What ever happens, we wish you all of the luck we can in finding the problem.
