On Saturday 25 February 2006 22:31, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > Then, cd burning worked again. Yay! Only it failed randomly sometimes > for some reason that I couldn't figure out. Eventually I discovered > it was because of autorun or magicdev or something like that, so I > blew those away and it worked again. Then, if I tried to mount a > CD on CDROM unit #2, it would fry the burn happening on CDburner > unit #1 (both on same IDE cable). > You could call that one self-inflicted :-) > Ever since then, which was around RHL 7.1 or maybe 7.2, CD burning > has been working then broken, then working, then broken, etc., at > least for me. I've tried 3 different burners, one a DVD burner, and > have experienced unreliable behaviour which I considered unacceptable. > Each time, I scan the lists and bugzilla and find various reports of > problems, and then just work around it temporarily by rebooting a box > into XP and using Nero or CDRwin. As much as I hate Windows totally, > I don't remember the last time I burned a frisbee in the evil > proprietary OS. > In contrast, I have been burning in linux, first on Mandrake/Mandriva then on FC4, for over 4 years. When K3B first came out I had problems with it, but I had been happily burning with XCDRoast, so I stuck with that for another 6 months or so. Since then K3B has been fine. I still use either, depending on what I want to do. In neither case did I have to do anything other than run the application's setup. > All I can say is that hopefully all of the different aspects of > why cd/dvd burning in Linux is currently a bumpy ride for at least > some people, eventually get worked out, whatever the root cause(s) > happen to be. > As Jeff remarked, speed can be the cause of problems. I always set the maximum burn speed for half the rate that the drive claims. Coasters are almost unknown for me. I don't think that applications are the cause of your problems, Mike, so maybe it's media, or maybe it's settings. Anne
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