[LUNI] IDE CD burner frustrations

[Kline, Jonathan]

First off, make your burner master device on the ide chain. Second of
all, what kernel version are you using? Stock? The blinking lights may
well be the kernels morse code code at work.... do you have the magic
sysreq key compiled into the kernel?

Cheers,

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:41, Jirsa, Jeff wrote:
> <RANT>
> #@$@#$!!!  Every time I try to burn a CD my system locks up!  I can't do 
> anything to warm boot it and the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock 
> lights are blinking when it locks.
> 
> Boy, if I was a newbie, this would/could cause me to drop Linux in a 
> heartbeat.  I never had this problem burning CDs with Windoze.  From my 
> limited experience with the burner GUIs and cdrecord, I have to conclude
> that 
> burning CDs with Linux is like a loaded Uzi; one wrong move and you can do 
> yourself in.
> </RANT>
> 
> FYI, my box is a Dell GX1 PIII 450.  A CD-ROM is the master drive and a 
> Lite On 16x burner is the slave drive on the second IDE channel.
> 
> Is there anyway to idiot proof (yes, you can count me in here) reading and 
> writing to a burner?  Some kind of throttle for the device?  Or, how can I
> find out
> the max speed to burn with without locking up the box?  
> 
> Is this only an IDE burner problem?  Has anyone had any lock ups with SCSI
> burners?
> 
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