CD Coasters

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Heh...Sounds like I finally have an excuse to buy a 40x Plextor or that 
cool Yamaha with the Disk T at 2 feature (that probably doesn't work under 
linux yet, plus I normally "fill" my CD's :).

- Charles

Brian Kelsay wrote:
> I think your problem is the HP Burner.  I've had tons of problems on the
> three or four I have worked on.   One a coworker tried under Linux would not
> work at all and the others under Windows 98/2k/xp had driver problems,
> burner software problems, burned coasters everthing.   The only way to make
> them work even part of the time was to use the HP burning software that came
> w/ the drive and load all three or four drivers in a specific order.
> Brian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Steinkuehler"
> 
>> > 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
> "