Bill Davidsen wrote: > Just a thought on making cdrecord smarter for Linux... > > If a recorder has (claims to have) Burn-proof capability, it would be nice > to run the burner at normal priority and with a small fifo, since the only > drawback would be slightly slower burning.
Slower burning is not the only drawback. If you try to burn a cd at full capacity and the burn proof has to be used several times, the data won't fit. This has happened me with an external freecom. I don't know is newer recorders don't do this little separation when starting again. > Perhaps this could be a flag, then if the user selected that option any > problems would clearly be of his/her own making. > > Just a thought, posted from a machine which is VERY sluggish at the > moment, doing end-of-week backup. Try the preemptive kernel patch for 2.4.17, it makes things *a bit* better with ide-scsi. -- Manuel Clos [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Si no puedes hacerlo bien, hazlo bonito (Bill Gates) * If you can't do it well, do it nice (Bill Gates) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
