Re: tlug: CD-R under Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, nivad wrote:

> Well it is great to know that someone is finally able to use CD-RW on
> linux!  I have a SCSI Omniwriter CD-RW (aka HP) and have occasionally
> checked for documentation on using it under linux.  If drivers have now
> been created for its use that will allow me to move some of the last few
> items over to my linux system.  The last one will be Net2Phone, and it
> should be quite a challenge (hopefully it will run on WINE).

cdrecord claims to support CDRW now.  I've never seen anything for Linux
that can use IDE CD writers, though - is there such a thing?


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> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 mike.fabian@example.com wrote:
> 
> > I found   CD-RW for   backups   and CD-R   for  archiving stuff   very
> > convenient. I am using a  Hewlett-Packard 7200e CD-Writer, which is an
> > external  device connected  to the parallel  port.  It  works with the
> > paride suite of drivers which are available from Kernel 2.0.35 on.
> > 
> > Having the CD-Writer connected to  the parallel port has the advantage
> > that I can easily carry the CD-Writer around and connect to some other
> > machine which I want to backup. The disadvantage  of the parallel port
> > connection is that you get a very high load on your CPU during reading
> > or writing a CD. Writing speed is 2x  (300kb/sec) and reading speed is
> > 6x.   During writing  I  have a  CPU load  around  50 % and  can still
> > continue working normally, but reading with 6x speed effectively stops
> > everything else. It is even difficult to move the mouse pointer during
> > reading. I think internal CD-Writers don't load the CPU that much.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux English / Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc. (http://www.turbolinux.com)


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