Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Friday 07 November 2003 08:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Note this still doesn't mean you can scroll large X windows for two or
> > three seconds at a time without burning a coaster.
> >
> > I had high hopes with the new scheduler, but no.  (Maybe if I niced the
> > heck out of cdrecord...)
>
> Wow, is the new scheduler that broken? cdrecord run as a realtime process
> and should definitely keep going pretty much in spite of what you do.  It's
> realtime priority and locked in core IIRC. The only problem I've had is
> running out of data burning from NFS mounted data, if I get a load of SPAM
> the network gets slow. My fault for not spending the time to copy the data
> twice or buy a burnfree device.

I dunno what I did.  This was -test9, using dev=/dev/hdc.  It was also 
something like a week ago.  Halfway through the burn it died because the 
buffer had run dry, and I made a second coaster to confirm that it was 
scrolling a konqueror window that had done it.

I probably forgot to run it as root.  (I don't remember it complaining, but I 
was in the middle of about four other things at the time.  It did _start_ the 
burn, and made it about halfway through.)  My laptop was also on battery 
power, which may have had something to do with it, although I have a vague 
recollection of that working previously, and the battery wasn't anywhere near 
dead...

It's not something I've really followed up on.  It works if I leave it alone 
while it burns, and I haven't had to burn that many cds recently.  (I was 
burning a knoppix cd for a friend.)  I mostly back up through the network...

Rob