| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 29 May 2000 at 23:53:52 |
| Subject: | Re: CD-R Audio |
Kevin Twyman said,
> Hello Neil,
>> It's a very good drive. Noticeably faster than the Yamaha on overal
>> CD creation speed, although it doesn't do CDRW.
> That's a shame :( I use CDRWs for backup, though the prices of CDRs
> are coming down so low that even that may change.
The last lot I bought were £19 for 50 discs.
> Well, I've invested in PFS3, and I bought an UW HD at the Kickstart
> show which I've installed this evening, running on a 68 pin cable, so
> I should have the makings of a decent CD writing system once I hook
> the Yamaha 4416 up to it.
Sounds good, and similar to my previous setup, except I used a Yamaha
CDR400T.
>> Do you mean it hangs when you create them, or when you try to read
>> them? If the latter, it could be down to the CD filesystem, although
>> most support multi-session.
> I wasn't able to read them with AmiCDFS, that is now fixed as I've
> installed CacheCDFS.
AmiCDFS should read multi-session CDs, but not multi-volume ones.
> The system hangs when I try to create them, and a re-boot is necessary
> to escape from it.
Do you have a filesystem mounted on the CD-R. It's best if you don't do
this by default, only mounting it when you need it, and not when burning
CDs.
>>> I know that MakeCD is your preffered CD burning software - any
>>> problems I should look out for when using it with the
>>> CyberStormPPC?
>> Provided you've got a recent version of cybppc.device (I use 44.67)
>> it should be fine. You may want to explicitly enable reselection in
>> the early boot menu as the auto setting doesn't always do this even
>> though the drive may support it. It handled my CDR OK but always got
>> it wrong for my tape drive.
> I have cybppc.device 44.69 (took my life in my hand and re-flashed
> it a couple of weeks ago )
AFAICS, none of the changes for 44.69 affected me, so I left well alone.
> I seem to have a problem with the early boot menu, though (I take it
> you mean the CyberStorm early boot menu?)
Yes.
> It now shows as what I can only describe as a "split screen", and is
> unreadable. It worked the last time I looked at it (some months ago)
> and the early startup menu works OK. I have a PIV installed. I've no
> idea what could be causing it, unless it's something in the latest
> flash update.
That sounds like a screenmode problem. Try changing the 31kHz setting in
the menu.
> Don't make me flash the ROM again, noooooooooooooooo! ;)
Flashing the ROM could have caused this, as it resets all the settings.
I wish there was a way to save them out, or even backup the flash ROM
before flashing it.
Neil
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