Systems

[droege@snapmail.us]

I have a couple of volunteers so far.  One suggests that I make small list
and send problems to this small list.  That way someone on the list might
have just the expertise needed.

OK, to attract interest, here is a "first" problem.

After a few changes I finally have a DVD writer on matt (the computer
where a night's images end up) that writes successfully under k3b.  Each
night I run I write a DVD for each of the 3 cameras.  The write looks good
and spot checks are OK.  k3b has a verify mode.  If you check the box it
does a read compare after it finishes the write.  This is convenient for
me to use since I can then be off doing other things for the hour or so it
should take to write and read compare a file.  However, if I use it, it
appears to read back at 1x.  Boggle!  It takes 8 hours or so to do a read
compare of a disk that writes in 1/2 hour or so.  Somewhere there is a bit
to set that fixes this.  Note that matt is available on the network so you
can ssh to matt and poke around and solve the problem.

Tom Droege