Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data

[Ric Otte <ric@otte.ucsc.edu>]

Bob,

I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work.  
But then I got the idea to see if DMA affected it.  So I turned off DMA
by typing

hdparm  hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc

And I was able to burn a couple of data cds.  I reall don't know why
this worked (or even what DMA is), and I'm going to see if this
continues to work.  It puzzles me, because I believe DMA was on when the
cd burner was in my home machine.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Ric

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:36:49AM +1100, bob parker wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 05:53, Ric Otte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> Just a wild guess try:
> 
> (as root)
> 
> nice --20 cdrecord ....
> 
> I always do that foe my burns to avoid buffer under-runs etc.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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