Two days ago I installed a new dvd drive in my computer, because my old drive went belly-up some time ago. Since I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard with that annoying Jmicron chip on it for Pata compatibility I thought I’d get myself a Sata dvd drive, to solve that problem.
The drive is an LG 20x internal “super multi dvd rewriter” and it works. Unfortunately, it has caused some performance problems in OpenSUSE 11. Mounting any medium (be it cd or dvd) makes everything hang for a couple of seconds and reading operations make other applications extremely slow, even though memory and cpu usage do not spike. I haven’t tried write operations yet.
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> Two days ago I installed a new dvd drive in my computer, because my old
> drive went belly-up some time ago. Since I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe
> motherboard with that annoying Jmicron chip on it for Pata
> compatibility I thought I’d get myself a Sata dvd drive, to solve that
> problem.
>
> The drive is an LG 20x internal “super multi dvd rewriter” and it
> works. Unfortunately, it has caused some performance problems in
> OpenSUSE 11. Mounting any medium (be it cd or dvd) makes everything
> hang for a couple of seconds and reading operations make other
> applications extremely slow, even though memory and cpu usage do not
> spike. I haven’t tried write operations yet.
>
> Does anyone know what’s wrong here?
>
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Are you using GNOME, KDE 4.x or KDE 3.5.9?
The automounter may have an impact, but depends on which one…
sorry to ask: Did You read the technical decription in full length?
2 years ago I bought an external DVD writer from LG which was labelled as “Super Multi DVDWriter” and linked to any PC using USB 2.0.
This part is restricted to work in all modes if your PC is not based on OS “XP” or “VISTA”. Only these 2 OS support that drive in all modes. Any other OS will make this drive to work in read mode only.
I had to buy a new one.
I bought a drive from Samsung “SH-S223”. It’s an S-ATA drive and it works perfect on my OpenSUSE 10.2 installation.
> sorry to ask: Did You read the technical decription in full length?
>
> 2 years ago I bought an external DVD writer from LG which was labelled
> as “Super Multi DVDWriter” and linked to any PC using USB 2.0.
> This part is restricted to work in all modes if your PC is not based on
> OS “XP” or “VISTA”. Only these 2 OS support that drive in all modes. Any
> other OS will make this drive to work in read mode only.
I’d like to see a reference for this claim…
I really, really doubt this is true.
But the poster’s problem wasn’t with writing to a disk… just with having a
disk in the drive seeming to cause long ‘freezes’ on his system.
Cannot imagine ANY manufacturer locking their equipment in such a manner.
The problem was apparently the 64-bit part. I just installed 32-bit suse and it runs perfectly fine. And the read-only mode claimed is not true: I burned the 32-bit installer from 64-bit suse.