On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:35:38AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > I don't know much about the licenses differences and all that crap but > > I experienced a problem with cdrecord several years ago where it would > > not work with my CD burner. I kept getting wiere I/O errors or some > > such. When I asked around,some people told me about wodim and when I > > went out and installed wodim, I've been able to burn CDs and DVDs > > flawlessly ever since. My time with wodim has transpired over > > Slackware, Debian, and now Arch. I don't know today if cdrecord would > > still cause me those errors or not but for me, the drkit has been > > doing me just fine. > > As you do not give any facts, this is obviously nonsense. > > I know of not a single case where cdrecord fails but wodim succeeds. > Wodim is nothing than an onl version of cdrecord with bugs added by it't > creators that never have been in the original. > > If you would give evidence, it would be easy to prove that your alleged problem > is not related to cdrecord. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (uni) > joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily Now you know about several of those cases, for I wasn't able to burn my CD on a modern device (Lenovo SL500's DVD device) with cdrtools (alpha67, IIRC), but I was able to do it with cdrkit without an issue.
