CD Coasters

[Matt G]

Sometimes, the culprit behind the coasters isn't the OS too.  I bought a
burner that was supposed to be the bom.  All my friends never had 1 coaster
with the same burner.  Mine "coasted" 9 out of 10...linux or windows.  After
exchanging it once, and wasting 10 more disks trying all manner of fixes, I
sent it back and bought a cheaper brand from the local joint.  Never had 1
coaster yet in either linux or windows.

Matt

PS...to their Credit, Newegg.com, where I got the first burner was nothing
but fantastic about exchanging and returning the first burner...even after
the warantee period ended.  :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Steinkuehler" <charles at steinkuehler.net>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: CD Coasters (was: Never ceases to amaze)

> 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:
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> 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)
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> 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
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