>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fred> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jared wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Reliable CD recording is >> something of a black art. 8X recording on my Fred> It is not "black art". On PC Linux I've not had *one* hickup Fred> burning CDs. In fact I've got somewhat over confident in that I Fred> can do many other things on the system while the CD is burning. Fred> Admittedly I only have a 4X burner, but I also have two Fred> hardrives, another CD ROM and two tape drives on the same Fred> bus. And to top it off my PC is only a 200MMX Pentium. Fred> The fact is, there is something very wrong with the SCSI either Fred> on the Amiga, or something related in the APUS kernel. People Fred> have complained about terminators and so forth. I use the same Fred> kind of cables and even junkier terminators (non-active) on the Fred> PC with no problems. Fred> I'm not trying to start a flame war, I wish I could find the key Fred> as to what is wrong. I think it is something related to memory Fred> or disk cache. I can reliably and repeatedly copy a few tens of Fred> MB at a time off my SCSI CDROM on my Amiga, but as soon as try Fred> something more stressful, like a whole directory of large files, Fred> I get a hard lockup. i.e. the system just stops dead. If I stay Fred> away from using SCSI at all, the systems stays up for as long as Fred> I've left it on. I can copy over my "network", compile programs Fred> etc. all day long. Ever look at the logging code I started to add? Might give you a hint as to where the problem is. Jesper
