> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Wardle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi Bill > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 03:26, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > > I hadn't seen any replies to this yet, so I'll venture an > observation > > of my own: CDRW should be the master device on any IDE chain that > > they are attached to, at least whenever possible. I've noticed > > marked reliability concerns and performance concerns when the CDRW > > wasn't the primary on it's chain, so I would switch the two drives > > around. > > My original decision was because the other device is a DVD-ROM drive, > and I wanted it to have any performance gain as I was intending to use > it to view DVD movies. > > Thankfully, after configuring both the DVD-ROM and the CD-RW > as IDE-SCSI > devices, any reliability and performance issues have disappeared. Well, that's good. Make sure you check to see that you have UDMA turned on for the drives (if they support it), BTW. Check hdparams. I'll still stand by the writer working best as the primary (and I have the opposite; my DVD is the slave on the chain with the writer), but if it works well enough for you, that's good enough, right? :) > > Some media, however, are not able to burn well at higher speeds (I > > still have media my drive will default to 8x for, although > other media > > I can burn on at the full 24x; the drive (and most of the > better modern > > CDRWs) can detect the maximum media speed relatively well). I have > > yet to see 52x media, so you've got something there (I've only seen > > media rated at 24x, though the best media I've found is > actually only > > rated for 8x > > In case we're talking about different things, I was referring > only to 48 > speed CD-R (write once) media. I haven't looked for CD-RW > (write many) > media recently, however last time I purchased some they were > only rated > at 8 speed. Nah, we're talking about the same thing... blank CDR media. I haven't seen any media rated higher than 24x, but I haven't looked since the fall, either. The best media I've ever gotten was rated as 8x, but I find >IN MY DRIVE< that it works at 24x without problems most of the time (one coaster, but I chalk that up to a bad memory stick in my machine). As for RW media, I've seen some that's "faster" than 8x (I've seen 16x) but I'm not real concerned about rewrite speed; I only use the rewriteables once a month or so (for archiving a few impossible to recover any other way data files for a church ministry, to take up-to-date drivers to my dad for his machine (no internet connectivity), and to pass a few files to a friend who lives a few hours away; otherwise, I just use the old LAN/Internet combo. :) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
