[lug] CD R/RW advice

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:33:13PM -0700, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
>(when reading) and trying to burn at the advertised maximum speed
>yields a coaster.

We've found that unless we're running pretty speedy hard drives, the
burning has to "pause", even though everything seems to indicate that it
has plenty of data buffered.  I'm not entirely sure why, but switching
from a couple of year old 37GB IBM 7200RPM drive to a brand new 40GB
7200RPM IBM drive seems to mean the difference between the burn light
staying on all the time and it stuttering.

We're running with 32MB buffers in cdrecord (and they don't under-run),
and the burner is on a different IDE interface than the system drive,
so...  I don't fully understand why this is, but it definitely seems to
be the case...

The next thing I want to try doing is burning from an NFS source, to see
if that does anything good for me.

>Howver, as anyone will tell you, most (if not all) CD burning software
>for Linux expects SCSI hardware, so if you're running an IDE drive, you
>have to use SCSI emulation.

Yeah, but the IDE SCSI emulation works just great.

Sean
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