CD-RW's Drive Problems.

[Kenneth Galle]

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.

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.

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