DVD is S L O W

dagge · 10-21-2002, 06:59 AM

I recently bought a linux magazine with a DVD. On the DVD there was some programs I wanted to copy to my hard drive. When I did that in x it did it with an approximate speed of 0.1 mb/sec.

When I installed slackware 8.1 I selected 1 inode / 2048b instead of the default of 1 inode / 4096b. I know it makes the hard drive slower but not that much.

What should I do? Do I have to reinstall slackware8.1? Have I configured my DVD wrong?

Btw, it's a 16x DVD.

NSKL · 10-21-2002, 10:05 AM

Use hdparm on the dvd device to change it's settings, allow DMA and everything else that should make it faster and you will get a big perfrmance change. Start with man hdparm
HTH
-NSKL

dagge · 10-22-2002, 05:22 AM

Can I damage the DVD by changing the options?

acid_kewpie · 10-22-2002, 05:29 AM

no not unless you do something really dumb, and setting dma is not dumb.

dagge · 10-22-2002, 04:23 PM

Now it works as it should be. Theres one other problem though. When I decompress tar.bz2 files in kde it goes quite slow. Is it supposed to be slow?

neo77777 · 10-22-2002, 06:08 PM

See if you have DMA enabled on harddrive(s) as well. Also how do you decompress bz2balls? tar xfvj ? or piping bunzip2 to tar?