On Friday 07 November 2003 16:34, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Aaron Trumm wrote: > >mine's real brand spankin' new > > > >>how long have you had your burner?..... > >>mine is pooping out thesedays after a lot of wear and tear and im > >>getting about the same ratio of coasters too. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>the other thing i'm guessing at is that maybe cdrecord / xcdroast arent > >>compatible with 52x burners?.... > > > >now this is an interesting theory - ties into the other guy's suggestion > > of burning slower. I'd bet that would work if not being compatible with > > 52x was the problem > > > >I did notice stuff like, on xcdroast, it would go to write the first track > >and just apparentely haul ass - it would report that it was burning at > > like 243x - like WHOA slow down there cheeko! maybe forcing a certain > > speed (slower than 52x) would prevent this from happening > > I have a 52x32x52x LG writer, these are my experiences: > > - Depending on your version of cdrecord, you'd better have ide-scsi > emulation (some models are supported already via ATAPI) > - Also make sure you have the burner on the PRIMARI bus of your IDE > channel (I have mine as primary and my DVD as secondary, both on ide-scsi) > - Try using cdrdao also (XCDRoast is more like a *frontend* for cdrecord > *and* cdrdao, but depending on the options selected it will use either > one or the other). > - Depending on your distro, you may have real trouble to make you CD > writer work as a regular user (without you needing to change a ton of > perms, that is), RH is especially difficult here (but still possible, if > you like check this post I made over at > http://www.slackercentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47869, I there > post about how to obtain user access to the writer. I've had success in dealing with some burning problems by running : hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc .. of course, replacing /dev/hdc with whatever your CD drive is. It appears some burners don't like full DMA. That said, I was able to burn audio CD's on my burner with full DMA enable, but couldn't burn data CD's without running the above command. I also religiously use the ide-scsi layer, but that can be a bit tricky to set up. t -- GPG: http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
