burning cd's

contigab · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Italy

I have always used cdrecord through some interface (k3b,arson,cdbakeoven) to burn my cd's.

My cdwriter is a philips cdrw4800 and i have it setup like that:

kernel hdd=ide-scsi
....
and
insmod sg
insmod ide-scsi
insmod scsi_mod

the cdwriter worked quite well, but recently i updated my system and it doesn't want to work anymore.
Today i tried to burn some mp3's into a cd and i burned about 5 cd's. None of them ended successfully.
Does anybody have an idea about how to write an audio cd?
I heard that the new cdrecord doesn't need scsi support anymore but...
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Robelix · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject:

The problem might be, that the current ide-drivers doesnt support DMA for audio-cds. In the gentoo-sources there is a cdda-dma patch included, but afaik this doesnt work with ide-scsi...

Start top while burning and have a look to the system-load - if it's very high this is the problem.
Then you have several options:
- Burn at lower speed
- Try the new cdrecord 2.0 with atapi-capabilities.
- Try a 2.5.x kernel - The ide-stuff is completely rewritten

hope this helps
Robelix