Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:47:23 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> > > >The main point is not to poll to frequent (Solaris does once everz 3 seconds) > >and to use SCSI commands only that to not interrupt or disturb CD/DVD-writing. > > > > I do not have any problems with resmgr/hal ATM (SUSE Linux 10.0). Although > hal [seems to] probes more often than once/3sec, it did not interrupt any > of my cd writing processes. Maybe that's already a feature of cdrecord*, I > don't know. > (With an older drive (AOpen CRW1232), the whole IDE bus was even > blocked when blanking, leaving no option but to wait.)
If you like to investigate on this, you would need to e.g. use cdrecord to write a DVD on a Pioneer DVD writer of check a notebook with only one ATA cable for both HDD and DVD-writer.
The fact that it does work for you does not prove that there is no problem.
Jörg
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