Slow CDRW

[mellis95]

I have searched the forum here and looked all over Google, but haven't found what I am looking for yet. I have a Toshiba A35-S209 laptop with a Toshiba SD-R2412 running FC3. My cd rip times and softare install times seem very sluggish. How would I check to be sure that DMA is enabled on the drive? Also, any other suggestions for speeding things up are appreciated.

Thanks for the help.

[imdeemvp]

Here is a great article in how to check your DMA: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...29/hdparm.html BTW, when using command become root and add /sbin/command_here

[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]# /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1664 MB in 2.00 seconds = 832.13 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 82 MB in 3.02 seconds = 27.17 MB/sec
[root@laptopFC4 imdeemvp]#