Hello, I am thinking of buying a CD R/RW. What are the gotcha's ? Any recommendations. I have only IDE, no SCSI. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff
On September 26, 2001 03:31 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am thinking of buying a CD R/RW. What are the gotcha's ? Any recommendations. I have only IDE, no SCSI.
I bought a LG CED-8120B a few months ago. The only hitch under linux is that it needs newer software then what shipped with 7.2. No problem the software on the XCdroast site works great. Cheap and seems to do a good job. 12X8X32 . 8MB buffer. Nick
Almost all recording software for Linux uses cdrecord to write to the CD-R(W). The home page for cdrecord is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/... I liked HP when I have bought drives in the past. My current PC came with some generic Asian CD-RW by Lite-On (www.liteonit.com). It seems to work just fine but cdrecord doesn't use the "BURN-Proof" fature for some reason. It is usually a good idea to put the CD-RW on a different IDE channel than your hard drive (on a different cable). If you are going to copy CDs with two drives you will want them on different channels. It was very important when CD-RW were a lot slower you probably can get away with the CD-RW on the same channel if it is a new fast ones with a large buffer. "BURN-Proof" will really help here. Good luck, PBen On Wednesday 26 September 2001 02:31 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am thinking of buying a CD R/RW. What are the gotcha's ? Any recommendations. I have only IDE, no SCSI. Thanks.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:13:33PM -0500, Paul Benjamin wrote:
Almost all recording software for Linux uses cdrecord to write to the CD-R(W). The home page for cdrecord is at:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/...
I liked HP when I have bought drives in the past. My current PC came with some generic Asian CD-RW by Lite-On (www.liteonit.com). It seems to work just fine but cdrecord doesn't use the "BURN-Proof" fature for some reason.
It is usually a good idea to put the CD-RW on a different IDE channel than your hard drive (on a different cable). If you are going to copy CDs with two drives you will want them on different channels. It was very important when CD-RW were a lot slower you probably can get away with the CD-RW on the same channel if it is a new fast ones with a large buffer. "BURN-Proof" will really help here.
Ok, My CD-RW is installed, ide-scsi in place, all is recognised. My first burn was not a great success. It was an audio cassette with a non-audio track, it will only play on the cd-rw, not on my cd/dvd. So coaster #1 .. My first (and it was late at night) attempt. I did ignore a warning about mixing an audio track with an ISO... one ... so I am to blame. The astute reader will realise I know squat about CD technologies ! I will hunt out the "cdrecord" site, meanwhile if anyone has a few hints and tips to pass on...please feel free. Thanks ! -- Regards Cliff
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am thinking of buying a CD R/RW. What are the gotcha's ? Any recommendations. I have only IDE, no SCSI. Thanks.
Does cdrecord support Burn-Proof? From what I've read, Burn-Proof requires support from the mastering software (this is definitely the case with Windows software). Secondly, when burning ISOs, does cdrecord use DAO mode? Finally, the previous advice to put the CD-RW drive on a different channel is appropriate. However, many of us already have both a hard drive and a CD/DVD drive; but only 2 IDE channels on the motherboard. My impression is that it is very safe to put the CD-RW burner on the same channel as the CD drive. Even for current fast burners, this doesn't appear to increase the rate of coasters produced. :ml
Yes cdrecord does support Burn-proof check their home page at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/... I could not get it to work with my Asian clone but it was not a name brand drive either. I worked just fine. I just did not do any demanding tasks while burning CD's. Don't loose any sleep over what channel your CD-R is on. If you have something made in the last couple of years it will be fast enough and have a large enough buffer not to make any difference. If you have an older CD-R you probably should use it as a reason to buy something new. PBen On Saturday 29 September 2001 10:41 am, Man Ly wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am thinking of buying a CD R/RW. What are the gotcha's ? Any recommendations. I have only IDE, no SCSI. Thanks.
Does cdrecord support Burn-Proof? From what I've read, Burn-Proof requires support from the mastering software (this is definitely the case with Windows software).
Secondly, when burning ISOs, does cdrecord use DAO mode?
Finally, the previous advice to put the CD-RW drive on a different channel is appropriate. However, many of us already have both a hard drive and a CD/DVD drive; but only 2 IDE channels on the motherboard. My impression is that it is very safe to put the CD-RW burner on the same channel as the CD drive. Even for current fast burners, this doesn't appear to increase the rate of coasters produced.
:ml
On 29 Sep 2001, Man Ly wrote:
Does cdrecord support Burn-Proof? From what I've read, Burn-Proof requires support from the mastering software (this is definitely the case with Windows software).
Absolutely. I use the following command to burn audio CD's on my Plextor 12/10/32S (which, BTW, kicks ass; DAE is 25X in Linux; 20X in Windows): cdrecord -v dev=0,4,0 driveropts=burnproof -eject -speed=12 - audio *.wav The "driveropts=burnproof " is the key here, and cdrecord prints that it's using BurnProof right before the actual burning. I believe you can also use the BurnProof equivalents of the other manufacturers. Understand that the version of cdrtools that comes with SuSE 7.2 is from 1999, afaik before BurnProof even existed. I hate to gloat like this, but I have the newest RPM of cdrtools (1.11a07) on my site [ http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html ]. -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0
On September 29, 2001 04:06 pm, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
Understand that the version of cdrtools that comes with SuSE 7.2 is from 1999, afaik before BurnProof even existed. I hate to gloat like this, but I have the newest RPM of cdrtools (1.11a07) on my site [ http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html ].
Just make sure you don't run Xcdroast. It's very picky about which version of cdrecord you run. The newer version of Xcdroast on the Xcdroast site uses cdrecord -version Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling The older version of Xcdroast that shipped with SuSE 7.2 needed the even older version of cdrecord that shipped with SuSE 7.2 Nick
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