HAY GUYS

LiquidAcid · Local time: Mar 6, 2007, 06:15 PM

What kind of DVD drive?
What operating system?
What media player?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Mar 8, 2007, 03:23 PM

PIO mode is hellishly slow

Correct

and tends to freeze up your computer a lot.

Wrong. If that happens you've got a serious hardware problem. PIO mode should never freeze a system. In fact it is more reliable because you don't depend on the DMA controller.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

LiquidAcid · 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

PIO mode results in much higher cpu utilization

Well that's because it it programmed IO.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

when in use, and in my book, "freezes" the system

Uhm, you should better say 'slows down', a system freeze is something more severe. In german you would say: 'Das System ruckelt/hakelt' (the system is jerky; I don't seem to find a translation of 'hakelig'; and I don't even know if you can use the jerky term there?)

@Zergrinch: I'm interested - why does Windows revert to PIO? I never experienced something like that (maybe because I'm still using w2k). AFAIK the controller can determine if their is too much cable noise for good transfers. So Windows should know if the read errors were caused by bad cables or were actual (media) read errors.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.