[Fwd: Franky CD Errors]

[Matthew Carpenter]

No.  One is 8.2 and the other is 9.0.
And I must say now, problem apparently solved.  Through all the 
rigamorole something must have been fixed, because this didn't help 
before.  The solution appears to be setting the speed of the burn down.  
Perhaps the drive can handle 52x but maybe something else can't.  My 
best guess is that it was partly the connection and partly the speed.  
Not sure.  Perhaps SuSE 9.0 uses a version of the kernel which alters 
the characteristics of the IDE bus or IDE-SCSI.  Not sure.  40x is good 
enough for now.  I'll probably experiement in the future.  "Simluate" is 
a beautiful thing.  I would have wrecked so many CD's in this process.


Net Llama! wrote:

>Are both boxes running the same version of SuSE?
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>On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>>I've been experiencing issues writing audio CD's on a SuSE 9.0 machine:
>>2.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 52x24x52 IDE CDRW.  The output from one such attempt is
>>attached (as obtained from K3b).  This issue had me pulling my hair out
>>(not that there's much left)  After having fixed some other potential
>>issues (reseating IDE cable, crimping the power connector to fit
>>tighter, etc...) and loading all available updates from SuSE the problem
>>persisted, and these logs were captured.  Then, on a whim (having tried
>>this before without luck) I set the speed down from 52 to 24 and wrote a
>>CD flawlessly (that hasn't happened since the upgrade from 8.2).  What
>>I'm wondering is if this is overriding some hardward limitation?  And if
>>so, why?  I've got an almost identical machine that writes at 52x
>>perfectly.  It doesn't actually write at 52x, but as fast as it can go,
>>it drops down as necessary.  Why doesn't this machine?
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>>Thanks,
>>Matt
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>>ps.  I swapped CDRW drives between the machines and proved that both
>>CDRW drives work equally well.  I can burn on the second machine without
>>troubles with either drive (it is running SuSE 8.2, however).
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