On Monday 03 February 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Holt wrote: > 5:42pm, civileme mused: > > Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward > > 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount > > disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with > > that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 > > > > DO NOT USE CDRW media for this either--most of it is 650 and there are > > MANY supposed CDRW drives which will not work with CDRW media of the more > > modern flavor or insist on trying to treat all the CDRW media as 700Mb > > capacity. > > > > Civileme > > Is this something mdk specific or is it just a feature not available to > the linux community yet? RW's have been out so long, I just assumed that > the technology had been stablized by now. > > Thanks Civileme! Mike
Umm, I just moved the Acer Drive to my son's computer (he uses the unmentionable system in its latest incarnation) and it behaves the same--choking on CDRW disks, so I imagine it is unresolved hardware issues with the druive hardware and the brand of media (one style did not throttle the drive) So it aint even linux-specific.... Just one of those things that you never know til you test. I have a Wearnes 4x2x24 that works acceptably and a no-name that does 700Mb media perfectly either CD-R or CDRW, but won't touch 650s at all and it is rated 40x12x48 (and that one made me a religious buyer of very cheap CD-Rs cause backing up a 40G disk using it is not a wasted day) as to the quality of drakbackup, I cannot speak because I have been using scdbackup since 1999, but I do know that it works better with supermount disabled. (MOF, with supermount enabled, I can crash the kernel with a dd from CD to floppy). That might be the mandrake specific issue you seek. Civileme
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