CD-RW's Drive Problems.

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Sorry for the bum steer on the channel stuff.  It seemed to work on my Linux box, 
but now that I think of it, I still would use mkisofs to make a cd-image on the HD, 
then burn it.  Besides, my hardware is so old, even on the same bus, I doubt they'd 
be fast enough to collide!  Geez .... SCSI looks better & better all the time!

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Meyer" <meyer_rm at yahoo.com>
> To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:45 AM
> Subject: RE: CD-RW's Drive Problems.
> 
> 
> > There is a setting somewhere in the IDE hardware information that turns on
> DMA.
> >  If you don't have that on, you get just what you're getting now.  I don't
> know
> > for sure where the setting is, but you can probably find it if you poke
> around
> > enough.  Sorry, I'm not a Windoze affectionado.
> >
> <-------------------------------snip--------------------------------------->
> Well after a few wasted cdr's later including some 16x. I'm giving up!
> Yes I tried the DMA thing, and tried putting both on same IDE channel writer
> as master and reader as slave
> ---and you can't do that!
> Thats a no no!! Nero came up stating (popup window) that you can't have the
> reader and the writer on the same
> channel. Having both reader and writer on the same IDE channel would cause a
> data signal collision!!!
> I was right! Its not like having two HDD on the same channel. Optical disk
> drives have different hardware issues, and requirements.
> 
> 
> So I put them on different channels writer on IDE2 as master and HDD as
> slave (poor RedHat all the things I'm putting it through). With reader slave
> and HDD as master ( stinkin windows). Still the same result wasted cdr's
> through buffer underruns. Did the DMA thing and turned off all TSR's
> anything else I could think of to see how to work my way around this
> problem, but to no avail. So I give up! It must be a bad CD-RW drive. So I'm
> going to save up and buy an HP cd-rw drive or a top named brand like HP.
> These nice priced items are a pain in the ASCII. I guess if you want
> something that works then you have to pay more!
> 
> Ron:)
> 
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
>