[CLUE-Tech] CD burning - the devil is in the defaults

[David Willson]

I have learned something, at the cost of about 20 CDs, a $50 CDRW, and
three hours, so I thought I might share it here:

CD burning seems to be ~much~ more reliable when DMA access to the
'burner is disabled.  To disable DMA access to my 'burner, root types:
  hdparm -d0 /dev/hda

Previous to this lesson, my burns were making coasters of every disc,
with CRC errors after around 150MB.

Does anyone want to swap a perfectly good 52x24x52 CDRW for a UPS?

-- 
David Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>