[LUNI] IDE CD burner frustrations

[Kline, Jonathan]

Yes the bus tends to make a difference, sometimes noticable, sometimes
not.

make sure you pass 'hdd=ide-scsi' to lilo/grub, to enable scsi emulation

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:19, Jirsa, Jeff wrote:
> When I do an lsmod, I see all of the neccesary modules for SCSI 
> emulation...  The Mandrake installer even added scd0 to the fstab file.
> I am assuming is it somehow related to the data transfer speed and 
> how much data the device/IDE driver can handle.  No?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Johnson [mailto:steve at webninja.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:15 AM
> To: luni at luni.org
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] IDE CD burner frustrations
> 
> 
> I burn at least a few cd's weekly, i've been using my sony vaio, with a
> 12x burner for 2 1/2 years with no problems.  First off use a good tool,
> I recommend eroaster, I've used cdrecord directly, but eroaster makes it
> easier.  Also, build your own kernel, if you're using an 'out of the box
> kernel', you probably don't know what's in it.  Make sure you put in
> scsi generic, scsi cdrom, and loopback device support.  Your burners
> devices should already be create on scd0,scd1,... Then make sure you
> install eroasted setuid root.  This way you can gain access to the
> device as a regular user.  There's not much more to it then that.  I've
> burned a few coasters here and there, but it's never crashed on me while
> burning!  You may want to try burning from that other os, to make sure
> your burner drive didn't take a dump on you.
> 
>   
> 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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