On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> I have a few questions on cdrdao
>
> I just upgraded to 1.1.4. My Teac-R58S is now auto-detected. Excellent. I
> (mostly) sucessfully copied one of my CDs and added CD-TEXT info which is VERY
> cool.
It was a 2 line patch to make 1.1.3 detect it :-))
> #1 If I place the drivers file in "/var/share/cdrdao/" or whereever it claims to
> put it the program dies with "Illegal Instruction." Leaving it out so that it
> uses the internal table works fine.
Try /usr/local/share/cdrdao/drivers or
~/.cdrdao.drivers
>
> #2 Why is a reload necessary after a simulated write?
Firmware issue.
> #3 DAE is very slooooow. Much slower than cdparanoia.
By default FULL paranoia is used. Use --paranoia-mode switch.
> #4 CD-Text info in the TOC must be positioned as the next to last block before
> the source statement. Anywhere else generates an error. The documentation
> dosn't mention this. The examples do show it correctly which is how I figured it
> out.
Right. Ask A.Mueller to include in the documentation.
> #5 My Global PERFORMER statement don't seem to be honored. If I leave the
> PERFORMER statement out of the track cd-text info block I get an error. A
> gcdmaster created file also adds these statements even if "disable performer" is
> selected. The documentation suggests that if they are not declared the global
> will be used.
PERFORMER has to be defined globally. Don't believe has to be defined for
all tracks (may be wrong :-)). Just try.
> #6 The cd that I burned last night has some isolated artifacts and wierd audio
> anomalities yet I never received a buffer underflow. 93% was the smallest buffer
> fill and a sucessful burn was reported.
Paranoia or system-related issues.
> However, it was burned at 6x while I was doing other things on the machine. 6x is
> pushing the limits of my ISA SCSI card. (8x dies) I am going to try a reburn at
> 4x tonight but I would have thought that I would have received a buffer underflow
> or some other error. Is is possible to muck up a recording without a buffer
> underflow?
Hardware issues may trash your CD. All software errors are reported.
> Can I turn on some extra debugging to give me any more information?
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