Quote Originally Posted by mohit.jain.india
can anyone tell me how to on the DMA ,,. so that i can try making New live cd in ten min or so rather than 2 hours time which its taking right now
You can start it from konsole typing knoppix-dma and choosing devices. I usually choose all of them. From launch bar you can choose KNOPPIX - Utilities - Hardisk/CD/DVD DMA Acceleration. I hope that DMA mode could be enabled automatically in ide drives - in scsi drives you can't use it.

But the time that how much DMA mode quickens remastering depends. I have an old 800 MHz Duron CPU but a new very fast ide hard drive with 8 MB cache. Remastering itself needs processing power but making isofs seems to depend more of hard disk speed.
Anyhow, making comressed fs without DMA enabled taked an hour, with it half an hour. And making isofs really is fast in DMA mode, about 1 min. and without it 20 minutes!


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