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Subject: [newbie] CDRW problem...
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:32:10 -0400
From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mandrake Newbie List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi. I've got a Plextor 12x4x32 CDRW, with an Adaptec 2930cu SCSI card, under
Mandrake v8.0. It installed fine, seem to be found. I can click on my CD icon
under KDE and it lists the contents. I used cdrecord to test a small burn,
that worked. The problem is when I copy files from the CD to my HD...I can
copy something like a 6 meg MP3, and according to Konqueror, it immediately
copies around 4 megs or so...then times out for about 20-30 seconds, then the
rest of the file is copied. I tried a huge 545 meg file, and it sustained
read thru it at around 2.6 megs/sec (is that normal?), but had a timeout at
the beginning and ending of the file read (same 20/30 secs). When it does
the timeout, the copy dialog box says "stalled". Any ideas why this is doing
this, and what I can check/do about it? Games like SOF and Descent3 took
much longer to install than under my IDE CD setup. It also took around 5
hours to install Mandrake from this CDRW, but Civileme (God bless'em!)
already told me there was a bug in the install kernel that was being fixed.
Thanks!
PS I have an AMD 475mhz/192 megs ram, 10 gig WD/20 gig Seagate setup.
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