Linus Drouhard escribi�:
> >Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the /
> > and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and
> > reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home
> > directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast.
> >Linus
First: Try the last release (alpha14) www.xcdroast.org, and also:
/26. Write performance is bad or my system freezes!/
If your system is put into high stress while you write a CD you might
get buffer underruns or in the worst case the system locks up
completely. Almost always these problems hint towards an incorrectly
configured system.
First check the transferrate of your harddrive - on linux there is a
tool called hdparm which does a nice job here.
/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda
This will measure the raw read throughput of your drive - you should see
values like 20-30MB/s for modern drives. If you are way below that value
you cannot write CDs in high-speed. Check if DMA transfer is enabled for
that drive. (See "man hdparm" for details).
Next thing is to check if you have other programs which also access the
CD-ROM/CD-Writer. Desktop-Systems often have KDE or Gnome running which
try to automount each inserted CD. This often kills cdrecord. Turn off
all this automatic CD handling in the Setup of KDE/Gnome. There are also
CD-Player applets in KDE and Gnome which should be disabled.
Now we check the writer device itself. Use hdparm again to see if DMA is
enabled. For some systems DMA should be on, on others it should be
disabled. You have to try for yourself which configuration gives you the
best results.
/sbin/hdparm -d 0 -u 0 -k 1 /dev/hdc
This command disables DMA transfers /dev/hdc (possibly your CD-Writer).
Some reports told me that this often fixed problems.
If you still have problems you can try to set the "Set SCSI IMMED flag"
option within the X-CD-Roast write dialog. On systems where harddrive
and writer are on the same IDE bus this can improve the behaviour.
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