[NTLUG:Discuss] Using 2 CD-ROM's with X-CD-Roast

J. Reeves Hall reeves at earthling.net
Fri Aug 13 18:11:30 CDT 1999


> I would be tempted to try putting them on different sides of the IDE
> chain, make one of them /dev/hdb.  Probably won't make a difference, but
> when you're desparate... :-)
>
> Also consider dumping the CD to disk, then use mkiofs to create the burn
> image.  Don't help if you device has trouble reading the disk, but the
> process works well, and may stress your system less.
>
> I just got cdroast to work last night, on a SCSI Yamaha.  I now feel
> confident about having a good backup. :-)
>
> Kevin

I ditched X-CD-Roast in favor of cdrecord, and it works great now :)

-Reeves







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