I've had a lot of trouble setting up IDE writing systems. I just had one system I was working on at my work, where the customer wanted an IDE cd-rewriter working under NT and Linux. Found out that NT wouldn't use the IDE writer, even after the drivers for SCSI emulation were installed. I did get it to work with 2.1.125 kernel with IDE-SCSI emulation, but I couldn't get either the writer or the reader to read or play audio CDs. I also couldn't get the reader to use IDE and the writer to use SCSI emulation.
I ended up swapping it with a SCSI writer, which reads and writes audio. Still can't get the IDE to read audio tracks. Even though the drive says it can handle CD-DA. Also have the reading problem on my own system. Any ideas to fix it? email, please. This list is very spammy for me. --Ian On 27 Nov 1998, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > You probably want to have a look at Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ, > which is not Linux oriented, but does have a lot of information about > the hardware. > It is at > http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ > > timothy> 1. I read (on NetExpress) that the shelf life of CD-R media > timothy> is only like 5 years. Is this true? Doesn't this suck? And > timothy> that CD-RW media has a shelf life of 30 years. Does this > timothy> mean I have to get a CD-RW? > > I think its the other way around CD-R lasts ~25 years, CD-RW ~5 > years. But I really don't remember where I read that. > > Aha. At the end of the FAQ there is the claim that CD-R have an > unrecorded shelf life of 5-10 years, and that once recorded the > estimated life is 75-100 years depending on whether you are using > "green" or "gold" blanks. > > My impression is that most CD writers you can buy now will write both > type of CD. > > timothy> 2. What is the deal with the buffer underflow thing? I read > timothy> (on Computers.com) that you should have a fast SCSI > timothy> interface, because if you cant feed the writer data fast > timothy> enough, the write will die. - Does this mean that all IDE > timothy> CD-Writers are useless? And what if you do get a SCSI > timothy> Writer, but are using an IDE hard disk? Wont you still be > timothy> stuck? > > According to the FAQ above IDE writers are not much of a problem so > long as the writer has a reasonable size of buffer. And I suppose > it depends how you are going to use it. If you always make an image on > a spare partition before writing to the CD, problems are even less > likely. And you probably don't want to start writing while your > machine is heavily loaded with other processes. > > I have an IDE CD writer (an HP CD-Writer+, 7200 series, 768K buffer) > that has worked without problems for me. But I don't use it heavily. > > -- > > Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock > Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
