X-CD-Roast

[Lucas Peet]

Another thing to try, is do a cdrecord -prcap on your drive to see if it
supports any type of underrun error protection, I know the two machines I
have CD burners in support burnfree or something like that, and needs to be
specified on the command line to enable it.  XCDRecord may not be turning
that on.

I just use some scripts and cdrecord I wrote to do all my cd burning via the
command line, and it seems to work a lot better than anything else I've
tried.

-Lucas

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of ismgr
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:18 AM
To: Charles Steinkuehler
Cc: KCLUG KCLUG
Subject: Re: X-CD-Roast

On Thursday 16 October 2003 04:20 pm, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

That's a great suggestion, Charles.

I had already tried to burn at 8x and it bunked out on EVERYTHING. 

Brought it down to 4x and it burned, but then again, I started getting some
of 
the errors just recently. 

I'll maybe try a little slower, just to see.

Thanks!

Chris

> ismgr wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:52 pm, Rusty wrote:
> >> If it burns CDs, why worry about replacing it?
> >
> > Wasn't considering it. I was just having difficulties burning CDs
lately.
> >
> > Every one of the three that I tried yesterday to burn a copy of RH 9
> > failed.
> >
> > Got fifo errors, if memory serves.
> >
> > Just wondered if it might be a problem with the app or maybe it's just
> > the burner. :-(
>
> I got errors (fifo errors, IIRC) when trying to use my HP 16X burner on
> a new RH8 system (Athlon 2400+, on both the built-in NForce2 IDE
> controller, and a PCI Promise Ultra-IDE controller) until I backed off
> the record speed.  It now happily burns at 8X, but wouldn't finish even
> short CD's at 16X.  I haven't tried anything inbetween...I'm usually not
> in a big enough hurry the 8X bothers me much (and it's still way faster
> than my old HP 2X burner, so it seems fast enough by comparison :-).
>
> Maybe dialing down the speed would help you too?