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#1 2009-01-05 07:13:50
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hdparm
In my quest to determine why VLC is playing the audio from DVDs very choppily, I did a hdparam /dev/sr0, and got
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for deviceIs there something wrong with how the kernel is utilizing my cd drive? Is it possibly related to my DVD woes?
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#2 2009-01-05 08:01:09
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Re: hdparm
Try hdparm -tT
You might need to use sdparm instead of hdparm too possibly...
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#3 2009-01-05 11:57:31
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#4 2009-01-06 09:55:50
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Re: hdparm
fukawi2 wrote:
Try hdparm -tT
You might need to use sdparm instead of hdparm too possibly...
read(2097152) returned 786432 bytes)
Timing buffered disk reads: read() failed: Input/output errorWhat should I do with sdparm? I don't see any timing tests in the man page. What's curious is that audio is the poor performer, video still glides along nicely.
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