On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Michael Norman wrote:

David

This isn't much help to you but that's exactly what happened to me. I can burn cds in W95 but imagined that Linux might be a bit more stable so I'd get less coasters. Can anybody who's burnt CD's in both confirm that ? If so I might have another go at recompiling the kernel, but my inclination at present is to leave it for now.

i have an HP 7200i (or something) 2x CD-RW. Use it mostly under linux but sometimes under winblows. I use SuSE 6.1 and kernel 2.2.10. Set all the right options when I did "make config" on the kernel and now it works. I use cdrecord to do the actual burning. Most of the time it works. A few days ago it stopped working under linux (got a lot of coasters) so I tried burning under windows. Burning under windows worked for a while, but then windows started craching when I was burning. So, I went back to linux and now linux seems to do a good job at burning :^| Oh well, guess I will switch back and fourth till I figure out what is wrong. All in all I prefer to burn under linux. There are more options (make bootable cd's mixed music and data cd make cds for linux and dos etc.) and there is less of a chance of linux crashing while you burn. Anyway, yes most of the time my IDE cd burner works just fine under linux! (and I love it -- what a cool toy!) later, Matt.