Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> >
> >The main point is not to poll to frequent (Solaris does once everz 3 seconds)
> >and to use SCSI commands only that to not interrupt or disturb CD/DVD-writing.
> >
>
> I do not have any problems with resmgr/hal ATM (SUSE Linux 10.0). Although 
> hal [seems to] probes more often than once/3sec, it did not interrupt any 
> of my cd writing processes. Maybe that's already a feature of cdrecord*, I 
> don't know.
> (With an older drive (AOpen CRW1232), the whole IDE bus was even 
> blocked when blanking, leaving no option but to wait.)

If you like to investigate on this, you would need to e.g. use cdrecord to 
write a DVD on a Pioneer DVD writer of check a notebook with only one ATA cable 
for both HDD and DVD-writer.

The fact that it does work for you does not prove that there is no problem.

Jörg

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