Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
>
> Since I upgraded my box from LM 7.0 to LM 8.0, I have had nothing but
> trouble writing CDs (from 100% success to about 10% success - I'm now
> drowning in coasters). See below for a sample cdrecord output. I'm
> currently using cdreecord from the cdrecord-1.10-1mdk rpm, but I've
> also tried other versions - with similar results. I have a Sony CRX
> 160E CD/RW hooked up using ide-scsi.
Did you not upgrade through 7.2? If so, did that work?
The best advice I have is to remap your IDE devices across the two
channels in such a fashion that while writing CDs the cdwriter is the
only active device on one channel. The worst case would be that the
source iso file and the cdwriter are on the same IDE channel.
The difficulty appears to be caused by motherboard chipset
deficiences, most notably with the VIA chipset.
If you have ATA-100 drives, set them up on the two extra IDE channels
provided by the Promise, etc, ATA-100 PCI card (or the Promise
motherboard chip). This leaves the original secondary IDE
motherboard channel available to be dedicated to the cdwriter (ATA 33
is plenty).
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Ron. [au]
