cdrecord no workie after upgade to 2.6.10

[Net Llama!]

On 12/31/2004 07:07 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> <just a little rant on>
> 1. I haven't tried 2.6.10 (and won't for a while after your reports).

aww, come on, take a few risks.  worst that should happen is that it 
sucks and you reboot back into whatever you're using now  :)

> 2. I had a hellacious time getting cdrecord to work at all on > 2.6.7.
> In my case, it turned out that cdrecord was not smart enough (that's
> an understatement! - totally hung system) to use DMA (is this the 21st
> century or what?). Once I turned off DMA for the recorder, problem
> solved.

How did you turn of DMA for the recorder?  hdparm ?

> 3. I'm underwhelmed by Jorg's approach to kernel development, which
> seems to be "This old dog is not going to learn any new tricks." Don't
> expect me to adapt, just use some other operating system.

Yea, but since he's the only show in town he gets away with it.  Which 
leads to...

> 4. Sigh, why aren't there any alternatives? If you want a browser,
> there's a plethora.

I've wondered that myself for a while now.  Do all the shiny CD burning 
GUIs out there have their own cd burning engines, or are they just 
frontends for stuff like cdrdao and cdrecord?  I've never used anything 
other than gcombust, which i know is a frontend for cdrecord.


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