Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-11-06 Thread Technoslick
If turning DMA on works, and you are satisfied --- use it! T :-) - Original Message - From: gikoreno To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning frustration Hey John,sorry to have taken so long to reply.I

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-11-06 Thread John Richard Smith
:* Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:12 AM *Subject:* Re: [newbie] Burning frustration Hey John, It turned out the reason why it wasn't burning at a decent speed was DMA related. I turned DMA on as per the other posts and it worked. Knowing how people warn on the reliability of CD-ROMS when coupled

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-11-06 Thread Technoslick
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning frustration Technoslick wrote: If turning DMA on works, and you are satisfied --- use it! T :-) - Original Message - *From:* gikoreno mailto:gikoreno;excite.com *To:* [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-11-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Technoslick wrote: No breakage. What I have noticed is that a CD-ROM drive becomes unreliable in reading. It works sometimes, other times not. Can't tell that the contents of the drive has changed. Or stops working. With storage mediums that you write to, like hard drives, it will begin to

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday November 6 2002 08:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Technoslick wrote: I tend to forget as much as I remember anymore, so when Tom Brinkman mentioned the problem was actually stemming from the motherboard's chipset, I remembered reading about that a long time ago. If you are

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
gikoreno wrote: Hey John, I have a scsi card, and it takes the first scsi bus (scsi0), that's why the burner is on scsi1 OK that explains it you have some sort of scsi card and it takes precidence over the numbering, so then are the writer and rom IDE devices ? or what ? Speed is 40x for

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-29 Thread Miark
with my linux... I think it is still not very stable... I use windows whenever I need to burn a cd... harry - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning frustration I've got the same

[newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread gikoreno
Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend. I've been trying to burn ISO images on my burner. It's the first time I try this on Linux, and so far it's been quite the disaster... The command I am using is the following: cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,2,0 /tmp/s.iso I

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread John Richard Smith
gikoreno wrote: Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend. I've been trying to burn ISO images on my burner. It's the first time I try this on Linux, and so far it's been quite the disaster... The command I am using is the following: cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 driveropts=burnfree

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread Miark
I've got the same crap going on here. In the last three CDs I've burned * The CPU meter hits the roof. It maintains 99% usage the entire time. Under 8.2 burning duties never exceeded 1.5%. * A 16MB fifo buffer while burning a 600MB CD, stuggles to keep full, rarely maintaining 25% content.

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread harry
hi, I have the same problems with my linux... I think it is still not very stable... I use windows whenever I need to burn a cd... harry - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread gikoreno
Hey John, I have a scsi card, and it takes the first scsi bus (scsi0), that's why the burner is on scsi1 Speed is 40x for CDR's... I've burned no problems at that speen when I still used Win2k... On lilo I do have those entries you are talking about. I have a CDROM and a burner, and here are the