Re: CD player probs

[Sudhir Parasuram <sparasur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I remember rading/hearing (more likey the latter) somewhere that 
putting a Master/Slave combination of HDD/CD-ROM on the primary 
(same) IDE (??) will cause the databus to be shared. This COULD 
lead to a decrease in throughput (not noticeable easily).

As to why you see strobing (??) sometimes and not while at other
times, it could be due to the way the programs play the CD. Some
programs probably tend to buffer some of the data on HDD while 
others probably play it using the Hardware directly.

The above is just a guess.

Any other opinions ??

Thanks,
Sudhir.P


Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
>         I am having a strange problem.  Whenever I play a CD with
> _any_ GUI based CD player, the player keeps strobing my Hard disk.
> The HDD light keeps flickering.  On the other hand using cdtool
> (cdplay, cdstop, cdpause etc.) there are absolutely no probs --
> i.e. no strobing, or even if I quit from a GUI cdplayer and tell it
> not to stop playing the CD after it quites.
> 
> HDD = /dev/hda and CDROM=/dev/hdb.  Arun has the same config but it
> never strobes the disk on his machine using the same CD software
> configured in much the same way.  Wondering what could be wrong.
> Could it be the way I have slaved hdb to hda?
> 
>         I have no theories as to why it must strobe.  any help would
> be appreciated.  Arun, could you tell me how you have cabled hdb to
> hda I have it such that the end part of the cable is on the CD drive.
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