Re: Strange PEER error with Dani's 506 1.81 generic question

Mike Luther wrote:
Interesting comment James..

James J. Weinkam wrote:

At least with IDE burners, my experience with at least six different models has been that the burner must be master and there must be no other activity on the same IDE controller while burning is going on.

I can understand this where we might be talking about an IDE hard drive setup with a burner. I can see where it sure might not be right to put it as a Slave on the same cable as the hard drive.

But at this point, with RSJ, an IDE hard drive with MCP2 XRC05 latest everything on the primary IDE controller, a CD-ROM as the Master on the secondary IDE controller, so I can boot from that as needed, or use it for clone copies for CD's for burning, and an LG DVD burner as a Slave on the secondary IDE controller, I'm seeing no errors with the RSJ 5.5.3 level code on this all IDE box.

At least yet!

Now I've not even started at going toward DVD burning here. Nor use of anything other than the RSJ tools. So I may yet be thinking carefully about what you posted here.

TIme will tell and you sure could be right even yet!



For several years, I had a problem with having burns fail seemingly at random, both for cd's and dvd's. I started keeping a log of all failures and eventually noticed that there were blocks of consecutive failures for which the time of failure was the same number of minutes after the hour for several failures in a row. It occurred to me to compare these times with my boot log and I found that any burn failures between two consecutive boots always occurred at the same number of minutes after the hour. I think it was Paul Ratcliffe who told me that every hour on the hour after boot the WPS shell checks every drive in the system for some unknown reason. cdrecord or dvddao has locked the burner using its scsi address, but the burner is also known by a drive letter When the WPS checks this drive letter or that of any other drive on the same controller during a burn I get another coaster..The solution was to use the --lock parameter in dvddao and the lockdrive parameter of cdrecord2 to lock not only the burner but also any other atapi drive on the same controller by their drive letters. Unfortunately the latest version of cdrecord seems to have a bug. lockdrive does not work when burning audio cd's. Fortunately these only take three or four minutes and I just check the time before starting a burn when I remember to do so. When I forget the probability of failure is only about 6%. This phenomenon only seems to occur on systems with ASUS motherboards...

I have carefully tried to file the above into my memory to watch out for as I get more into this.

I really know very little about this game at all and am very grateful for what others are helping teach me here.

Actually, I need to qualify my previous statement. Ilya sent me a message saying that he has successfully used burners as slave and upon reconsideration, I agree that he is correct. It's been so long since I had two burners on the same system that I had forgotten that. Thinking back, what I did find with two CD/DVD readers and/or burners on the same IDE controller was that it worked best if the newer or more capable device was master. The rest of what I said holds true. If you try to do anything at all with the other device on the same controller while a burn is in progress, you wind up with a coaster.

Also, when I did have two cd or dvd drives in the same system, I never had any success with cd to cd or dvd to dvd copies. The only way I have ever gotten copying to work reliably was to copy the source to a hard drive and then burn the hard drive image to the destination.
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