Re: ATAPI CD-R lags system to hell burning in DAO mode; but not in TAO

[Anssi Saari]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:30:08PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I've got a Teac CD-W524E 24x CD-R writer, and ever since I got it
> several months ago I have had the somewhat annoying issue that burning
> a cd Disc-At-Once makes the system unusable during the burn. The X
> cursor jerks, repaints take forever, etc. This problem doesn't occur
> when burning Track-At-Once - I'm unable to notice any significant
> increase in system latency when using that mode.
 
I've been having a similar problem, but in my case it's audio and other
non-data CD writes like VCD that have this kind of slowdown problem.
DAO vs. TAO doesn't matter in my case. IDE chipset is VIA 686b. The
problem disappears if I plug the writer to onboard pdc20265, but burns
on that are otherwise flaky.