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- Frequently asked questions
- ==========================
-
- Please read these questions and answers carefully, before asking any
- questions. Maybe your question is answered in this list.
-
-
- Q: The online help of MakeCD causes trouble with CycleToMenu and MagicCX.
- What can I do against this?
-
- A: You should not install hacks. Well, probably you do not want to remove
- these hacks, do you? So after you have understood MakeCD, we suggest
- you to use the menu to turn off bubblehelp to avoid the problem. Note
- that the bubble help is from triton.library and so we cannot change
- its behaviour.
-
-
- Q: I want to save the window sizes or open the windows on a public screen.
- Is this possible?
-
- A: Since the windows are from triton.library, you can use the Triton
- preferences editor to achieve both. Feel free to register Triton.
-
-
- Q: Are there any mailing lists for MakeCD?
-
- A: Yes, there are. Refer to "english/MakeCD.txt".
-
-
- Q: When will you add support for my CD writer XYZ?
-
- A: It is not easy to support all different CD writers, because there is
- no standard SCSI command set to access them. However, if you send us
- the command set of your CD writer, we will do our best in order to
- support it.
-
-
- Q: When copying an audio CD, I get a buffer underflow. Obviously my 8x
- speed CD-ROM drive is not fast enough, although my CD writer writes
- only in double speed. What's wrong here?
-
- A: Many CD-ROM drives read CDDA data in single speed only. In order to
- copy an audio track, you should switch your CD writer back to single
- speed - or use temporary files.
-
-
- Q: I have written a CD, but it seems to be damaged. My CD-ROM drive
- cannot access it. :-(
-
- A: You have to fix the session or the CD-R in order to access the CD in
- your CD-ROM drive.
-
-
- Q: When will MakeCD be able to write multisession _datatracks_?
-
- A: Multisession datatracks are planned for version 2.0 of MakeCD.
-
-
- Q: How can I set the length of the pauses between the tracks?
-
- A: This is not possible with any Amiga CD writer software at the moment
- (27.12.96). MakeCD uses the track-at-once mode, too, i.e. it only sends
- the pure track data to the writer and leaves calculating checksums and
- writing of pauses and table of contents to the writer. This has the
- advantage that writing can suspended unlimitedly between tracks and
- multisession would be possible. Selecting the length of the pauses
- would only be possible in the disc-at-once mode. MakeCD will offer
- both modes alternatively as soon as possible.
-
-
- Q: Is there a possibility to copy a CD with multiple tracks without pauses
- despite of the fact that writing will add pauses?
-
- A: It is possible, however, the copy will consist of one large track.
- You have to select the first track of the original CD as source and
- set its length to the total length of all tracks (= "end last track" -
- "start first track" + 1). MakeCD will read all tracks in one piece.
-
-
- Q: I have read that MakeCD is able to write Amiga Protection Bits and
- file comments. I wrote an image file with Rock Ridge and Amiga
- Attributes turned on - but when I mount this image, all files have
- standard protection bits. The script bits are still lost. What is
- What is wrong here?
-
- A: You need a filesystem that supports Amiga Protection Bits. The freely
- distributable AmiCDFS2 supports them since version 2.30. AsimCDFS will
- support them starting with version 3.7. The author of CacheCDFS has
- promised to follow soon and has a working beta version.
-
-
- Q: I have entered and saved my registration number and address. Nevertheless,
- the next time the MakeCD registration requesters pops again. What's wrong?
-
- A: You are probably trying to register MakeCD on a partition with AFS
- (Amiga File Safe) with a version older than 16.16. Update AFS and
- the registration will work.
-
-
- Q: What is the difference between sequential and parallel reading/writing?
- Which one should I use?
-
- A: MakeCD 1.0 always used the parallel method: Two independent processes
- read or write simultaneously. In the sequential mode buffers of the same
- size are read and written alternating.
-
- The parallel method is more demanding in regard to the system's
- reliability. It works only well if disconnect is supported properly and
- is enabled for both harddrives, CD-ROM drive and CD writer or different
- controllers are used for source and target.
-
- The sequential method avoids several potential flaws of controllers.
- It has another drawback: When a read request is delayed, the next
- write request cannot start and the data stream is interrupted even
- if the buffer is not empty, i.e. the buffer cannot compensate temporary
- fluctuations of read performance any more.
-
-
- Q: When writing a CD-R the CD writer suddenly stops, but MakeCD doesn't
- show an error description. I can select abort, but nothing happens.
- The computer doesn't crash and I can still use the SCSI bus. Is this a
- known bug?
-
- A: I have encountered this problem with a Oktagon V6.8 when writing audio
- tracks to a Philips CDD2000 V1.26 with enabled disconnect. It was
- reported for other controllers, too. It is a bug in the controller or
- the target drive: MakeCD is waiting for a write request that is never
- completed because reconnection failed.
-
- MakeCD can hardly do anything about this. You should disable disconnect
- for your target drive and/or try sequential reading/writing.
-
-
- Q: Reading and writing of data tracks works fine even with disconnect, but
- I get into trouble when using other track types. Why that?
-
- A: Some controllers increase performance by making assumptions for example
- about the block size they are to transfer, e.g. block size is a power
- of two or an even multiple of x bytes (x = 32, 64, ...). These assumptions
- are wrong for such unusual block sizes like 2352 bytes (audio track) and
- the controller software fails.
-