Re: [PLUG] Re: CDWriter hangs the computer during fixation

[epike@isinet.com]

> The IDE port is singular - Master & Slave; no secondary IDE port
> exists - at least, it's not mentioned in the BOOK PC's manual
> and there's no room for any more drives inside the box.  Therefore,
> I've gotta solve the problem without moving the CDWriter and the
> hard drive to different IDE ports.


Well in my experience before, placing the cdburner and the hard disk
together on the same ide ribbon does appear to "hang" the computer;
In my case (redhat 6.2, ricoh burner) the fixation process appear
to have freezed the other hard disk on the ide chain while the 
cd-rw was being completed.  I do not have a technical explanation 
for this, my personal amateur explanation is that the ide disks 
cannot spin at exactly the same time...thats probably the 
reason you get better results if you prepared the data iso image 
beforehand and if you just use cdrecord on the command line.  
You can also try to minimize other processes (X windows, other 
background processes) when doing your cd-writing tests.


re: mkisofs,

I find that this works for me:

 mkisofs -r -J -f -o cd_iso /directory



epike/jondz

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