I got over the xcdroast reboot problem. There was clue on the xcdroast website that Debian distros might have trouble with ATIP sensing and to run xcdroast with the -a option to bypass that. It worked. New problem. I can't blank a DVD+RW disk. I get the following error
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) I've tried this with dvd+rw tools as well as xcdroast. I get the same error. The first time I used xcdroast to burn a data disk (approximately 3GB of data), it formatted fine and seemed to burn fine, but stopped at 704MB. It thought it was a CD even though I set the media capacity to 4.7GB. Now I can't blank the disk to try again. On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:28:20 -0500 Linus Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but it didn't work. I uninstalled alpha13, eroaster, k3b and reinstalled > xcdroast-alpha14. Same thing. Hard reboot when running first time as root. Since > it never runs at root, I cannot set it to non-root mode and don't have the .xcdroast > directory in home. A real puzzler. > > Linus > > On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:28:30 -0300 > Pilagá <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Linus Drouhard escribió: > > > >Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / > > > > and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and > > > > reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home > > > > directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. > > > >Linus > > > > First: Try the last release (alpha14) www.xcdroast.org, and also: > > > > /26. Write performance is bad or my system freezes!/ > > If your system is put into high stress while you write a CD you might > > get buffer underruns or in the worst case the system locks up > > completely. Almost always these problems hint towards an incorrectly > > configured system. > > First check the transferrate of your harddrive - on linux there is a > > tool called hdparm which does a nice job here. > > /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda > > This will measure the raw read throughput of your drive - you should see > > values like 20-30MB/s for modern drives. If you are way below that value > > you cannot write CDs in high-speed. Check if DMA transfer is enabled for > > that drive. (See "man hdparm" for details). > > Next thing is to check if you have other programs which also access the > > CD-ROM/CD-Writer. Desktop-Systems often have KDE or Gnome running which > > try to automount each inserted CD. This often kills cdrecord. Turn off > > all this automatic CD handling in the Setup of KDE/Gnome. There are also > > CD-Player applets in KDE and Gnome which should be disabled. > > Now we check the writer device itself. Use hdparm again to see if DMA is > > enabled. For some systems DMA should be on, on others it should be > > disabled. You have to try for yourself which configuration gives you the > > best results. > > /sbin/hdparm -d 0 -u 0 -k 1 /dev/hdc > > This command disables DMA transfers /dev/hdc (possibly your CD-Writer). > > Some reports told me that this often fixed problems. > > If you still have problems you can try to set the "Set SCSI IMMED flag" > > option within the X-CD-Roast write dialog. On systems where harddrive > > and writer are on the same IDE bus this can improve the behaviour. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/FAQ > > /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/Readme atapi > > > > Suerte > > -- > > Pilagá > > GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.1 > > Núcleo multimedia 2.4.21-0.16 > > 09:18:19 up 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 > > > > > > > >
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