Question: My Oktagon keeps hanging when I read or write audio or Mode2 tracks. Will a new version of the Oktagon device help?
Answer: This problem is evident with all currently available versions of the Oktagon device (i.e. up to and including version 6.12). You must turn off reselection for the unit of the CD writer or ROM drive using the OktagonPrefs program, otherwise the data transfer will only work with tracks with a block size of 2048 bytes.
Other sources recommend turning off reselection and synchronous for all devices attached to the Oktagon and setting the chunk size to 256KB. In addition, you should set softXC???oktagon.device as the device driver in place of oktagon.device.
Oliver Kastl has written a new driver for the Oktagon. You can download the new driver, called Oktopussy, at
http://www.elaborate-bytes.com/. Oktopussy is much better for burning CDs than the old Oktagon software.
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