that happened to me when I repartitioned my drive...lost 6 cd's worth
of info...all because the friggin TOC wasnt written.

ML

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:02:31 -0500
"Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com> wrote:

> On a different note. Anyone ever write a CD/RW that other machines
> can't read, but you know it's there cause you can see the burn marks?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Clinton [mailto:clintonj@umkc.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:15 AM
> > To: kclug@ItDepends.com
> > Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> > Subject: Re: cd copier
> > 
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> > Jim Herrmann wrote:
> > | Jason, were those writers on the same IDE channel?  I 
> > wonder if you could put
> > | one on each channel and still make it work.  You would 
> > probably also want
> > | "Burn-Proof" turned on.  That allows a buffer underrun to 
> > occur, and still
> > | not burn coasters.  If you had a Promise IDE card, you 
> > could theoretically
> > | have 4 drives on separate IDE channels.  Just a thought.
> > |
> > 
> > Hum, well, they were on the same channel and they both had 
> > burn-proof enabled.
> > The interesting thing about burning them was that if one CD 
> > finished burning
> > before the other did, then cdrecord couldn't seem to issue 
> > the eject command
> > until the IDE bus was free. Thus, they would both eject at 
> > the same time. This
> > tells me that either (a) the SCSI Generic implementation on 
> > Linux is not able to
> > handle multitasking SCSI emmulation or (b) my Promise IDE 
> > controler doesn't
> > handle it. Either way, if you're going to be using linux for 
> > this CD burning
> > machine, I'd go with either CD burners on seperate IDE 
> > channels or a SCSI
> > implemenation (which would be more expensive).
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