On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:38 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > I gotta wonder why everybody's harping so badly on Memorex. > I've got to really abuse the media to burn a Memorex brand > coaster. So far, the only Memorex CDR I couldn't burn was > one I made a fractal out of in the microwave with. Do y'all > microwave your CDs before using them or something?
Maybe it is a problem that has nothing to do with the quality of the CD's. Here's my own experience ... I was having all kinds of trouble with bad disks. The procedure seemed to work fine, but the disks had errors. There were a few (about 3 on average) corrupted files on most disks. I had a cheap drive, and thought that was the problem, so I bought a new one. I was told that Plextor was the best, so that's what I got. It still had errors, about the same as before. I use mkisofs and cdrecord. After getting a bad one, I tried again from the same image file. Same errors. Check the file. It's bad too. (CD-RW, of course, for the experiments) It turns out the problem was the VIA DMA bug. It worked with DMA disabled, but a large partition with ext3 was now too slow to burn a CD at 4x. (Reiser on the same size partition was ok at 12x, with DMA off.) Fortunately, my motherboard also has a Promise controller on it. Use that instead, problem solved. No more coasters. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
