CD Coasters (was: Never ceases to amaze)

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Bradley Miller wrote:
> At 08:47 AM 4/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>>I never burn CDs in Windoze. I burn all of my CDs in Linux.
>>I have to ask my Windoze friends for help though.
>>I need some nice CD-like drink coasters.
>>As I have never gotten one from Linux.
> 
> On my new PC -- no coasters under Win XP on a 2.6G, now with 764M.
> On my contracting PC -- no coasters under Win 2000 on ??G with 256M.
> 
> Guess I'm no help here!  ;-)

I've gotten linux to burn coasters:

RedHat 8
Asus A7N8X MoBo
2x IBM 80 Gig IDE drives (setup as master...one on each IDE port) RAID-1
16x HP 9700 CD Burner (setup as slave on secondary IDE port)

I suspect the problem is the burner and the IDE RAID drives being on the 
same bus.  I have since moved the burner to a Promise PCI IDE 
controller, to get it on it's own bus, but haven't had the need to burn 
a CD since (hmm...might be time to try grabbing the RH9 isos).

NOTE:  DMA was enabled on all devices when I burned my "coaster", and 
setting the record speed to 8x instead of 16x fixed the problem.

Anyone else had issues with IDE burners on the same channel as a HDD?

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net