On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 13:31, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> > Well, I've managed to successfully burn a music (cdda) cd by manually
> > typing in a toc-file and using cdrdao from the commandline.  I'm getting
> > the feeling that most of the error messages I'm getting when I try using
> > GUI burning apps is because they are passing the wrong parameters to the
> > commandline tools.
> 
> In that case, go straight to using mkisofs | cdrecord.  They're not /that/
> difficult to work with.  I've never even tried using a GUI burning tool,
> because burning uses so much of my CPU that X would stop responding.
> 
> > Anyway, you need to load paride, epat, and pg, in that order.  As far as
> > burning software, I've tried KOnCD and XCDRoast for burning a cdda (both
> > gave me errors, that's why I used CLI cdrdao), KOnCD let me burn an ISO
> > but it had gaps in it and was useless.  I will experiment with another
> > ISO soon and let you know.  When I have time I'm going to try hacking at
> > KOnCD and see if I can get it to pass the right options and work with
> > the 7200.
> 
> Other things to try include:  always run cdrecord as root, as it sets up
> extra scheduling priorities;  use cdrecord's `dummy' option; invest in a
> CD-RW disc to practise on until you have the hang of things.
> 
> Glyn
> 
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Any idea about what would cause the driver to lock up the system when I set the parallel port to use EPP mode?
Paul
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