On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:12, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > Quoting Jan Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > driveropts=burnfree. And don't forget to nice it. :) > > When I was using slower hardware, I made sure that > I was in single-user mode, and made sure that I gave > the "setterm -blank 45m" command, and that no major > process is running when I gave the "cdrecord ... image.iso" > command. This ensures that the buffers are never > emptied so that CD burning is an uninterrupted > single continuous write. I would not even think of > nice-ing the cdrecord command. But with our faster > hardware, one is tempted to run several processes with > the cdrecord command, and to even "nice" it. Is this > a dangerous thing, or is there no danger with fast > hardware?
I have been happily burning CDs on an Athlon XP 1800+/256Mb/5400RPM Harddrive/SonyCDRW/ even while surfing or doing some work on OO. I never had any buffer problems. But I've read that you should not do it while compiling a kernel :) Holden -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
