Thanks - I know that pure scsi burners are more reliable this way, but I have been using ide-scsi for many years now without any problem, on many distros - until I upgraded to LM 8.0. However, I experimented some more with hdparm, and found that the problem goes away when I turn DMA *off* on /dev/hdc (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc). It's highly reproducible; as soon as I turn using_dma on again (which is the default config) it fails 9 out of 10 times. I doubt this is the way things are supposed to work, but if it shuts down my coaster factory, I can live with it :-) -- Alex On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:29:43PM -0500, J. C. Woods wrote: | | Alex, | | Since you ask, and normally this is the kind of advise I am disinclined | to give, my advise would be to think about a pure scsi cd writer. There | are several good and cheap scsi boards out there, such as the Adaptec | 29xx series. Mandrake uses the "aic7xxx" driver, and has yet to fell me | in verision 7.0 thru 8.0. I know money can be an issue but I have never | had any problems burning a cd with my scsi setup in all the Linux | distros I have used, and there have been a few. If the frustration gets | to much with your ide cd writer, at least this is something your might | want to think about. Wish I had more for your situation. Hang in | there..... | | drjung | -- | | Art is the illusion of spontaneity...
