Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortelnetworks.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation? Message-ID: <199908240628.XAA04885@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > I think that most IDE CD-R/CD-RW will just work using Soren's ata driver > in current. I'm doing that on my laptop right now with a hacked pccard and > hacked ata driver. Also I have an external IDE hard disk as well. I do have > a problem with buffer underflows when do a mkisofs to a 4X write over > PCMCIA. 2X works fine. Making your dd blocksize a multiple (say 10) of physical blocksize should cure this. I use something like: AUBLKSIZE=2352 AUWRSIZE=5 AURDSIZE=`expr $AUWRSIZE '*' 2` OBS=`expr $AUBLKSIZE '*' $AUWRSIZE` IBS=`expr $AUBLKSIZE '*' $AURDSIZE` rtprio 5 team -v 1m 5 <$1 | \ rtprio 4 dd ibs=$IBS of=$WORM obs=$OBS conv=osync || exit ymmv, Andrew. -- +-- | Andrew Atrens Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada. | | All opinions expressed are my own, not those of any employer. | --+ Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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