CD-RW's Drive Problems.

[Ronald Maggio]

----- 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.
>
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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.
>
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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
>