GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 342961
Nautilus should warn before burning a CD without DMA-support
Last modified: 2006-05-30 15:01:52 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-cd-burner/+bug/46410 "Some IDE drives/controllers don't support DMA (or the drivers for it don't support it). When this is the case with either the source or destination drive, people will probably burn a lot of coaster if they try to use Nautilus's CD burning facility[1]. I think Nautilus should warn for lack of DMA-support before people try to burn a CD. [1] of course, other CD-burning programs will have the same problem and should probably do the same... ... > Thanks for your bug. What does an user win with that? nautilus-cd-burner uses burnproof by default, do you expect an user will not will to record any CD if there is no DMA mode? ... Some IDE drives/controllers don't support DMA (or the drivers for it don't support it). When this is the case with either the source or destination drive, people will probably burn a lot of coaster if they try to use Nautilus's CD burning facility[1]. I think Nautilus should warn for lack of DMA-support before people try to burn a CD. [1] of course, other CD-burning programs will have the same problem and should probably do the same..."
I sympathize with the problem. However, I cannot even conceive of what such a warning would say or how on earth the user could possibly respond to it. Some of the error messages in HEAD already suggest trying a lower speed when a burn fails. That is really all the user would be able to do anyway. I don't think that a nastygram trying to explain why DMA is useful is a good idea.