Re: dvd+rw-tools update [6.0, DVD-R DL]

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> the data should be sent to the drive NOW. Eliminated writing a full CD 
> to buffer, with data from cache, then closing the file and having the 
> drive go dead busy for a minute.

This is a problem arising from the bad caching strategies on Linux.

Solaris starts writing short after cache memory starts filling.
Linux just starts too late and then you need to wait ast the end.

Jörg

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