From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265263AbUHJNxP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:53:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266258AbUHJNwQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:52:16 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:31967 "HELO ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265305AbUHJNv3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:51:29 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:51:26 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Joerg Schilling Cc: mj@ucw.cz, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@suse.de, dwmw2@infradead.org, eric@lammerts.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Message-Id: <20040810155126.7afa6dea.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200408101245.i7ACj6EM014024@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200408101245.i7ACj6EM014024@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:45:06 +0200 (CEST) Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Martin Mares > > >> Switching Burn-Proof on will reduce the quality of the CDs. > > >BTW is it true that Burn-Proof reduces the quality exactly in the cases > >where burning without Burn-Proof would ruin the disk? > > This is why it is silly to tell people that they do not need locked memory > and raised scheduling priority for CD/DVD writing. Please, if you don't want to answer the original question, don't post anything. My answer: Yes, burn-proof (or however the vendor calls the corresponding feature) saves your disk where otherwise you run into dead-end. That's what it was meant to be. When there is no underrun, burn-proof should not do any harm. Regards, Stephan