Hi. I've got a Plextor 12x4x32 CDRW, with an Adaptec 2930cu SCSI card, under
Mandrake v8.0. It installed fine, seem to be found. I can click on my CD icon
under KDE and it lists the contents. I used cdrecord to test a small burn,
that worked. The problem is when I copy files from the CD to my HD...I can
copy something like a 6 meg MP3, and according to Konqueror, it immediately
copies around 4 megs or so...then times out for about 20-30 seconds, then the
rest of the file is copied. I tried a huge 545 meg file, and it sustained read
thru it at around 2.6 megs/sec (is that normal?), but had a timeout at the
beginning and ending of the file read (same 20/30 secs). When it does the
timeout, the copy dialog box says "stalled". Any ideas why this is doing this,
and what I can check/do about it? Games like SOF and Descent3 took much longer
to install than under my IDE CD setup. It also took around 5 hours to install
Mandrake from this CDRW, but Civileme (God bless'em!) already told me there
was a bug in the install kernel that was being fixed. Thanks!
PS I have an AMD 475mhz/192 megs ram, 10 gig WD/20 gig Seagate setup.
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