cd burning

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Randy. The dominant thing here seems to be the transfer rate from your local machine through the usb cable to the Cd burner. That transfer rate seems to be very slow. Do you get anything like buffer underrun errors when burning Cds? Or does your entire machine lock up (not good at all if this happens)? Do you have any other usb devices besides the Cd burner just to make sure the port is working fine and that the controller isn't malfunctioning in some miserable way? Do you have another machine on which to test the burner? If so I would do that if I were you. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: randy turner <rturner2 at texasisp.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: cd burning


> 
> 
> hi Igor and all
> i saw on the web where a few people had it working,
> i might need to look for a later uhci or usb-uhci driver
> i will look at that site that you gave me.
> i updated cdrecord to the latest version,
> i am running kernel 2.4.18,
> the cd burner is the iomega 4x4x6
> i am also using the generic scsi driver
> i have tried speeds 2 4 and 0 all time out,
> i have tried setting a higher value in timeout=
> still timeout happens
> i assume i have an intel,
> the drivers load ok and with the other driver it won't load
> so i assume i have the correct driver.
> anyway i will look around somemore
> 
> 
>  thanks in advance
> randy
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi Randy. What type of motherboard do you have? Intel motherboards generally use the uhci driver, so I would suggest using it. I am not sure as to what controller (s) usb-uhci uses or is compatible with. As for everything timing out in the second track, it might have to do with slow transfer rates. How recent is the document that you read?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: randy turner <rturner2 at texasisp.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: cd burning
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > hi Igor and all,
> > > i have two usb drivers that i am trying to use,
> > > 1 driver is called uhci
> > > the uhci driver will only go at 0.4x speed,
> > > it does not work all of the time,
> > > the second usb driver i have tried to use is
> > > usb-uhci
> > > this driver goes at 4x speed but everything comes to a halt
> > > half way through the second track.
> > > i can't even run at 2x with out problems.
> > > the fifo shows to be 100% even at 4x
> > > so i don't know where to turn here.
> > > they are saying in several articles that i have read
> > > that the iomega 4x4x6 works
> > > in linux very well
> > > but i just can't get it to work.
> > > thanks in advance
> > > randy
> > >
> > > On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Randy. How fast is your writer and what are you burning? If I am burning a 650 mb Cd writing at 4x, I think it would take somewhere around half an hour. Definitely not more than an hour. Sorry I can't say whether its normal or not. Because if you are burning 650 mb at 1x, then I would say it could take something close to the time you specify.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: randy turner <rturner2 at texasisp.com>
> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:08 PM
> > > > Subject: cd burning
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > hi Igor,
> > > > > how long does it take you to burn a cd?
> > > > > i finally got my cd burner working,
> > > > > it takes me around 3 hours to burn a cd.
> > > > > is that normal?
> > > > > thanks in advance
> > > > > randy
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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