-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 August 2003 04:36 pm, Rthoreau wrote: > Hi fellow Debian users. > > I have been pulling my hair out the last three days because every > time I tried to burn an ISO in cdrecord it locked my system solid. > Had to do a hard reset. After pouring over the Man page, searched > the net I solved my problem. > > I wasn't using the -immed flag when burning with cdrecord, which for > some reason would use all the system bus, therefore lock up the > computer solid. According to the cdrecord man page: > > This can be useful on broken systems with ATAPI harddisk and CD/DVD > writer on the same bus or with SCSI systems that don't use > disconnect/reconnect. These systems will freeze while blanking or > fixating a CD/DVD or while a DVD writer is filling up a session to > the minimum amount (approx. 800 MB). > <snip> > A correct solution would be to set up a correct cabling but there > seem to be notebooks around that have been set up the wrong way by > the manufacturer. As it is impossible to fix this problem in > notebooks, the -immed option has been added. > > Since I built this system from scratch I know that I used the proper > cables. I am also using an SMP system so system resources like cpu > cycles should not be a problem. I do have cdrw, dvd on the same IDE > channel. This is a little unnerving because I thought I had a good > system. But according to the page I have a broken system, or the > wrong cables. > > I also use cdrdao to burn bin/cue files and I have never had this > problem. Could this be a coding problem in Cdrecord, and they using > the -immed flag is a way out of the problem? Or is it like they say > a bus problem? I am using a current version out of unstable seems to > be a problem with all versions though. > > If I do change motherboards, or my cabling will this solve my > problem? Or do I have to wait until a future bus is implemented? > Have any of you played arround with cabling, and motherboads to solve > this problem? > > Rthoreau
I think what the cdrecord info means is do not put a hard drive & Cd/burner on the same cable. In some notebooks there are only one IDE controller so this happens, though I haven't actually seen a noebook configure this way. AFAIk having a cd reader & cd-recorder on the same bus and copying from one & burning to the other can cause the issue you mention. If this is the case, DMA or scsi emulation need to be used. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/LB0zk7rtxKWZzGsRAhicAJ43CifUpx7gf1YB0Gxwbt1NLIAdlQCbBlsu ayWnqxAr+zFIhrUwm5TXi9k= =3MYo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
