CD-RW's Drive Problems.

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

I agree totally. No IDE here. My kids machines have it though and I 
won't change a thing on their's. Afraid of Ron's type of trouble. My 
server and workstation both have scsi. The server has 4 drives (all 
18.2g) and a CDROM drive. Workstation has 2 drives (9.1g ea.), a CD-R 
and a DVD drive.
Like you said scsi ROCKS!
Bob

Robert Meyer wrote:

> And people wonder why I rag on IDE so much...
> 
> IDE bytes!  SCsI ROcKS!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> --- Ronald Maggio <r.v.maggio at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Kenneth Galle" <kagalle at infoblvd.net>
>>To: <nflug at nflug.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:08 PM
>>Subject: Re: CD-RW's Drive Problems.
>>
>>
>>
>>>I had all sort of trouble with cdrw under windows when I first got a cdrw
>>>drive.  It would sometimes fail, sometimes lock up with the drive still
>>>spinning, etc.  So then I figured out how to use mkisofs and cdrecord in
>>>linux, and have never had a failure (except for the rare occation of a bad
>>>disk) since.  cdrdao also works good - but takes more initial setup to
>>>
>>use.
>>
>>>There is a X front end for cdrecord, xcdroast I think is the name.
>>>
>>>
>><----------------------------snip-------------------------------------------
>>->
>>I'm most likely going to move the drive to my AMD box that has Mandrake 8.1
>>sitting
>>all on its lonesome and try a burning with one of the software installed.
>>
>>
>>>Master or slave should work if the drive is jumpered correctly.  There has
>>>
>>to
>>
>>>be a master on the bus though, and single master is certainly the best
>>>arrangement.
>>>
>>>
>><-----------------------------------snip------------------------------------
>>----.
>>Correction the manufacturer states that the recommended jumper settings is
>>(master)
>>I can't do that I have (two) drives set to master. 1. win98 2. RedHat 7.2 CD
>>reader is slave
>>on IDE secondary channel, and cd writer is slave on IDE primary channel.
>>The cd-rw's hardware design from the info provided by the manufacturer
>>states that it is suggested
>>to be jumpered as master. So lets see...then it wants to BUS master the IDE
>>Channel. Not much room
>>for customizing here to my liking. So I think I'll move it to the AMD box,
>>and put it on its own IDE channel as
>>master!
>>
>>So much for modern better design!
>>Bull!!!
>>
>>Ron
>>
>>
>>>Ken Galle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ronald Maggio wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I'm having a problem with a I/O magic burner. I will state that I'll try
>>>>
>>it
>>
>>>>with Linux before I give up.
>>>>Ok here it is I have set the drive to slave although I/O magic states
>>>>
>>that
>>
>>>>they recommend to use it as master.
>>>>I'm getting nothing but buffer underruns and questionable copied cdr's.
>>>>Does anyone have any input on this before
>>>>I remove it and its software. These off brand or cheep knockoff's of
>>>>
>>this
>>
>>>>type of hardware are not as flexible in there
>>>>installation settings as better brand named products. ie: Hewlett
>>>>
>>Packard
>>
>>>>and the like.
>>>>I assume the same problems should occur in Linux since its a hardware
>>>>
>>issue
>>
>>>>and not a software issue.
>>>>I did close (((ALL))) tsr's. I'm running dual-boot and can't set it to
>>>>master.
>>>>I read all the info that came with it and I went to there web page to
>>>>
>>find
>>
>>>>info, but I came up with the same conclusion.
>>>>It has to be set to master in order to work right.
>>>>If this can't be worked out I'll just remove it and save up the money to
>>>>buy a named brand unit. ie: HP.
>>>>
>>>>Ron
>>>>
> 
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