DVD copy

[Jerry Lapham]

On Monday 20 April 2009 2:42:16 am Eberhard Roloff wrote:

> Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > I'm running Kubuntu 8.04/KDE 3.5.10.  This evening I was trying to copy a
> > 2.7GB video DVD using K3b.  When it got to 58% read, 29% overall, it hung
> > the system.  The mouse cursor disappeared, the Numlock light went off,
> > and the capslock and scroll lock lights started flashing.  C-A-D didn't
> > work, so I had to hit RESET.  The /tmp directory where the ISO was being
> > written to had 8GB free.  This happened twice.  Then I tried reading the
> > DVD to an ISO file and burning the ISO in separate transactions and that
> > worked.
> >
> > Any ideas why?
> >
> > 	-Jerry
>
> Well, maybe your two drives are on the same IDE channel (if it's IDE),
> thus sharing one IRQ?

I have only one DVD drive which means copying with one transaction, which 
didn't work, is essentially the same as doing it as two transactions, which 
did work.  Really strange!

	-Jerry
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