[Devil-linux-develop] Fwd: [cdrecord list] Re: disabling count-down

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

Hi, this is a forward from the cdrecord mailing list on how to eliminate the
annoying count-down when you are burning multiple devil-linux disks.

John

--- Lourens Veen <lo...@ra...> wrote:
> On Monday 19 August 2002 22:10, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > how can skip the initial countdown of cdrecord?
> >
> > -Hanspeter
> 
> See the manpage, the argument is called gracetime.
> 
> cdrecord gracetime=2 sets it to 2 seconds, which is the lowest 
> possible. If you want to go lower, you have to edit the sources, 
> changing line 92
> 
> #define MIN_GRACE_TIME 2
> 
> to
> 
> #define MIN_GRACE_TIME 0
> 
> and perhaps modifying GRACE_TIME as well if you want to change the 
> default. However, do mind the warning on cdrecord.c lines 804-810:
> 
> /*
>  * Note to people who like to change this: I am geting patch 
> requests
>  * for an option to reduce the grace_time two times a year. I am not
>  * willing to change things with respect to grace_time because it 
> would
>  * not reduce the needed time in a significant amount and because it
>  * would break other things.
>  */
> 
> (sorry about the messy formatting, my mail client and Mr. Schillings 
> code editor have different line lengths I imagine)
> 
> So, those are your options. Try it, if it works, good, if it breaks, 
> too bad, you'll have to wait a few seconds longer for your cd.
> 
> Lourens
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