From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 2 16:15:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13966 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13958 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA05824; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 01:09:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610022309.BAA05824@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: hp4020i on 2.1.5, and it burns, burns, burns, ... In-Reply-To: <199610010713.JAA16099@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "1. Oct. 96 9:13:01" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 01:09:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > p.s.: Discussion of this kind would better belong to freebsd-scsi@ > freebsd.org. There are quite a few more people than these three here > working with CD-R. Here we go: CC: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Hello again, finally, I wanted to update you on my progress with the burner. This time I always ejected/reinserted the CD and never did an abort on the dummy burn. (being really careful this time :-) I also checked the RAM timing and used a little slower values -- although I had no problems before. (But I'm using mixed 4MB and 1MB modules.) (I "checked" RAM by running 3 `lat_mem_rd 8 128' simultaneously.) After four successful dummy runs I burned a CD from the same file I used on Monday (while now running X and several xterms). 14:23 beta: /root 0#% burncd /fat/test-cd Place a blank CD in the writer and press return: 663900 kilobytes, 2210 seconds 1327800+0 records in 33195+0 records out 679833600 bytes transferred in 2217 secs (306645 bytes/sec) Time report: 15.400u 701.379s 39:21.13 30.3% 15:05 beta: /root 0#% So, no timeouts. Afterwards, no problems with mounting or reading. Thanks for your support. > But that's already the limit. Don't push it beyond it. For example, > my machine at work does also serve as the company's lpd filter, with > ghostscript rendering PS jobs. While running with 16 MB under X11, > _this_ one finally caused the burner to underrun. May be I had luck that it didn't start swapping heavily. A few swaps are caught by the team buffer, but when it really gets into it ... > I can live with mkisofs, but would like to see it supporting what Regarding my idea of including write support into the cd9660-FS, I think it's very difficult (don't want to say impossible :-) since a mounted vn-file cannot grow or shrink, but one doesn't know the final size beforehand. On the other hand it would be cool(tm) to read/write on an ISO-FS and than copy it to a CD-R (needing only 1x). (But I know too little about FS, CD9660 etc.) > ISO9660 calls ``multi-session'' (which is IMHO a big abuse of the > term). Btw., the Windows zoffware is likely to be actually a > single-user DOS software when it comes to actually burning the stuff, > thus you gotta dedicate the machine for it... And don't move the mouse! :-) (Heavily moving the mouse and a window lets the buffer underrun on Loose 3.1, 486DX2/66, 32MB) Just wanted to mention a question on -questions by Martin Ostermann : > When I configured the worm support in the kernel, the CD-writer only > shows up as the worm, no longer as cd0. When I try to mount /dev/cd0, > it says "device not configured", which is true, it doesn't show up > during boot. > > Now, worm(4) says that it should supply all capabilities of cd(4), but > there's no worm block device (/dev/worm0). > > Can I create on (what minor number?), or how is it going to work? I started wondering about this too. Also, are there some special commands (tools/ioctls) for reading audio-CD tracks to disk ? (Something like creating my favorite top ten. :-) -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de