CD Record loss of streaming
 

Hello everybody,









I just want to tell you how I solved my "loss of streaming" problem with my cd-recorder on parallel port.




I think it is a very special case, but maybe it would be useful to others.




I have an old Dell Pentium Pro200n which has a parallel port with 3 BIOS possibilities :




AT, PS/2 and ECP.









Thanks to the information found on http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current




I tried the three possibilities and then loaded after each boot :









insmod paride




insmod epat




insmod pcd drive0=0x378,0




insmod pg drive0=0x378,0,0,,-1,0









(The last 0 on the last line is delay, and 0 is the recommended value)









I tried the 3 possibilities :









AT : result : loss of streaming




PS/2 : result : loss of streaming




ECP : result : loss of streaming









I did many unsuccessful tries, until I finally found the solution :









I *must* boot my PC with *first* the ECP option, and *then* immediately reboot it




with the PS/2 or AT option.









It's the *sole* method which works ! And that works fine :




I did no longer experiment any other "loss of streaming" so far with this method.









I don't know how that works : maybe a piece of firmware is loaded with ECP,




which is not with PS/2 nor ATand which remains active and which is necessary... ?




Very weird ! Maybe somebody could explain me ?









Anyway, even if this is a very special case, I hope this experience could help others...









Many thanks again to members of http://www.torque.net/parport/




who gave me the way to solve my problem.









BTW, I don't know how to post a message on www.torque.net/parport.




Is there anybody who can help me ?









Guy:confused:

Thanks for the tips. It's always good to find people posting their successes for others to (hopefully) stumble across.

Just one question, though? Why the big gaps between sentences?

Before submitting my posting, I clicked three times to "preview" here below, and each time, a blank line more was added automatically. But that's true, I didn't think to delete them... maybe it was possible !

Hmm. What browser/OS are you using? I know this doesn't happen to me and from the looks of other posts I don't think it happens in general.

--jeremy

Opera 5 Linux Mandrake 8.1