Raphael Mankin wrote:

Are your CD blanks rated for that speed? However good the hardware you cannot go faster than the media will take.

I think so. I bought them to use with this writer and I would have checked that but it was a long time ago and it's not printed on them (they are on a spindle and it's not printed on the case).

JD

On 23-Oct-2002 Jonathan Dye wrote:

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Hi guys,

I'm having problems writting CD's (It is an IDE cd writer Acer 20 10 40 soemthing) under linux (debian3 kernel 2.4.18). I can't seem to write a CD without getting errors on it (i.e. a diff with the orginal show differences). What seems to be happening is that I'm getting buffer underrun on the drive as it stops writing momentarily. I can't see why as I have cdrecord's fifo set to 16Mb and it doesn't drop below 90%, the writer is on it's own channel and even if I did get under-run the drive is supposed to have BURN-Proof which according to cd-record is switched on. I've tried slowing down the writing from 20x to 8x and still got a bad write (although I didn't notice the drive stop writing but I didn't watch for the whole 10 mins). I've also tried turning DMA on and off by using hdparm on the /dev/hd* entires (which seems to work even though I'm using ide-scsi) and turning it off means I can't spool data quick enough for 20x anyway. I was hoping someone would have a suggestion as to what I could do to stop this happening (appart from buy scsi!). I'm currently compiling the kernel with less crud and the preemptive patch to see if that improves the situation.

JD

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