Re: 2.4.x Problem with cd writing

[Steffen Moser <lists@steffen-moser.de>]

* On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:58 PM (+0200), Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 20:10, Steffen Moser wrote:
> > * On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:19 PM (+0200), Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > While my writer writes TOC or fixes CD (doesn't write real data-stream),
> > > the whole ide-disk interface of the system is frozen.
> >
> > Are you sure that the whole IDE subsystem freezes? I suppose that only
> > the IDE channel where the CD writer is connected to becomes frozen
> No, both channels are frozen.

So this might be a different problem. Here, only the secondary IDE
channel was blocked because the CD writer was connected to this channel. 

> > You can try the option "-immed" which is available at least when using
> > "cdrecord-2.0" [1].
> sorry, doesn't work.

I think that's one more hint that you're experiencing a different kind
of problem. This option worked for me (as well as connecting the CD
writer to a separate IDE channel which is not shared with any other
device - especially with a hard disk).

Steffen