HI [Teac 524E, Kernel 2.4.18]
I'm trying Peters advice with 2.4.19-pre4-patch, and will disable caching. I'll write what happens when writing to a fresh formatted cdrw. Do you have the same burner as i?
OK, here my experience: i patched the kernel with this patch, and some things have changed. When writing to my burner, it's LED's are flickering in complete other mode. Also the recording speed (my other mail) seems to be higher. I've compiled the kernel without caching enabled. But when rereading the written UDF-CDRW from my cdROM, i allways get errors on some files. I would say, about 1 of 100 files is corrupt. If i copy only some large files 1by1, all goes on. If i copy the whole /usr/src/linux, errors are there. I use following scripts to active my UDF-burning, if that's interesting: (i have a sym-link from the pktcvd-device to /dev/packet, which is used in all my scripts; and /dev/cdwriter is the symlink to the burner) script for formatting a cdrw: ---- #!/bin/sh cdrwtool -d /dev/cdwriter -q ----- script for mounting and activating UDF-CDRW: ---- #!/bin/sh pktsetup /dev/packet /dev/cdwriter mount /dev/packet /mnt/cdwriter -t udf -o rw,noatime ----- script for unmounting the UDF-CDRW: ---- #!/bin/sh umount /mnt/cdwriter pktsetup -d /dev/packet -----