FC3 can no longer successfully burn CDs]
Fulko Hew
fhew3 at cogeco.ca
Sun Jan 16 16:54:25 UTC 2005
Fulko Hew adds to his own post:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:19:44AM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
>>
>>> 1/ The timer on the screensaver does not work.
>>> - Time values < 20 minutes are obeyed.
>>> - Time values >20 minutes always results in a timeout of 20 minutes.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a BIOS set 20 minute display timeout floating around too by
>> any chance ?
>>
>
> My BIOS has no 'apparent' options. Actually it has very few options.
> :-(
And remember, this CD burn problem _is_ kernel specific.
I will do tests later today with older kernels and this 20 minute
timeout issue
and report back.
>>> iii/ A good burn (when read) will read extra data past the sixe of the
>>> original ISO written (15 x 2048 bytes)
>>>
>>
>> Thats correct behaviour. The end of a CD is very low accuracy only.
>>
>
> OK. But (in my nievity) doesn't that make it difficult to 'dup' CDs?
>
> ie. you couldn't do a: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=test.iso bs=2048
>
>
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