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Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:58:39 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: RSJ conflict

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Very Good to hear that Butch has finally overcome his big RSJ
roadblock. It is a good program. I recommend commenting OUT the
"LockCDR" line in CONFIG.SYS, because I like to be able to have the
burner double as another reader, which comes in handy sometimes.

I have (possibly) made a curious discovery. In eCS, the 1.0 UDF
driver seems to get installed by default. I never have had a DVD
drive in my system (except connected -- very briefly -- to facillitate
the installation of eCS itself, because the one I got was a cheapo IDE
model that needed no special h/w arrangements in my all-SCSI system,
and was instantly bootable for CDs), and therefore I did not really
need the UDF driver. But it seemed to be doing no harm, so I just
left this driver in place.

I could not figure out why I could not burn CDs with RSJ in eCS.
Instead of going straight to the burn and finishing relatively
quickly, the way RSJ functioned in the Warp 4 partition, there would
be a considerable pause, then RSJ would go for awhile and stop a long
while, then start up again and stop. Half an hour later, I'd come
back and find both drive lights lit, but seemingly nothing actually
going on, as if the process had gone into a coma. Finally I had to
abort RSJ with the process killer, after which OS/2 would hang during
shutdown. Long CHKDSK interlude follows, but this was the only way to
extract the now guaranteed "beverage coaster" from the burner. When I
looked in the RSJ Cache directory, after bringing the system back up,
there I'd find a cache file of the proper size, which never made it to
the CD. Hardly any errors showed up in the RSJ error log.

The first thing I tried was replacing OS2CDROM with JJSCDROM, as had
been the case in the W4 partition. (Adaptec SCSI drivers were the
same in both.) This made no difference. Next, I found out that
DELETE directories were being created and used by eCS, whereas I
turned that Off several years ago in W4. This seemed a plausible
culprit, if deleted files were instantly "bouncing back." But no,
that wasn't it either. Lastly, in this process of elimination, I
commented out the UDF driver, and it seems that I can now burn CDs in
eCS. Whether it proceeds smoothly, quickly, and reliably, the way it
does in W4, I can't yet say. But this does raise the question of
whether you can have UDF coexisting with SCSI cd.

Of course, I haven't ruled out the possibility that this could have
something to do with my aforementioned cable / connector or H/D
defect. If it does, this problem should return.

Jordan

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