Aaron Trumm wrote: >mine's real brand spankin' new > > > > >>how long have you had your burner?..... >>mine is pooping out thesedays after a lot of wear and tear and im >>getting about the same ratio of coasters too. >> >> >> > > > >>the other thing i'm guessing at is that maybe cdrecord / xcdroast arent >>compatible with 52x burners?.... >> >> > >now this is an interesting theory - ties into the other guy's suggestion of >burning slower. I'd bet that would work if not being compatible with 52x >was the problem > >I did notice stuff like, on xcdroast, it would go to write the first track >and just apparentely haul ass - it would report that it was burning at like >243x - like WHOA slow down there cheeko! maybe forcing a certain speed >(slower than 52x) would prevent this from happening > > > > I have a 52x32x52x LG writer, these are my experiences: - Depending on your version of cdrecord, you'd better have ide-scsi emulation (some models are supported already via ATAPI) - Also make sure you have the burner on the PRIMARI bus of your IDE channel (I have mine as primary and my DVD as secondary, both on ide-scsi) - Try using cdrdao also (XCDRoast is more like a *frontend* for cdrecord *and* cdrdao, but depending on the options selected it will use either one or the other). - Depending on your distro, you may have real trouble to make you CD writer work as a regular user (without you needing to change a ton of perms, that is), RH is especially difficult here (but still possible, if you like check this post I made over at http://www.slackercentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47869, I there post about how to obtain user access to the writer. - Another way may be to check this script I wrote as an excersise: #!/bin/bash # Image grabing script. while : do echo "Warning, this program uses cdrdao for image making!" echo "You will need either a true SCSI drive or SCSI emulation" echo "on EIDE-ATAPI drives, if you want to konw how your devices" echo "are mapped on the SCSI bus, you may want to see the contents" echo "of /proc/scsi/scsi or by 'cdrdao scanbus'" echo echo "Do you want me to run 'cdrdao scanbus' (y/n)?" read ANS case $ANS in y|Y) cdrdao scanbus break ;; n|N) break ;; *) echo "Please choose y/n" read ANS esac done echo "Device from which you would like to extract the image from?" echo "(Default /dev/cdrecorder)" read DEV if [ "$DEV" == "" ] then DEV="/dev/cdrecorder" # For debug only # echo $DEV fi echo "Path where you want to store the image" read DIR echo "Name of the image" read IMG cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile $DIR/$IMG.bin --device $DEV --driver generic-mmc-raw $IMG.toc echo echo "Do you want to burn your newly created image (y/n)?" read ANS0 while : do case $ANS0 in y|Y) echo "Do you need to change the device for your cd-burner (y/n)?" read ANS1 unset DEV while : do case $ANS1 in y|Y) echo "Please write the device you would like to use" echo "it may be in the format bus,id,lun, default /dev/cdrecorder" read DEV if [ "$DEV" == " " ] then DEV="/dev/cdrecorder" fi break ;; n|N) break ;; *) echo "Please answer whether y/n" esac done echo "Please state the speed of your cd-burner" read SPD echo "Do you want to pass extra options to cdrdao (like --simulate)?" echo "Please enter your options below, leave blank for default" read OPT cdrdao write $OPT --eject --speed $SPD --device $DEV --driver generic-mmc $DIR/$IMG.toc echo "Your CD has been burnt successfully (unless otherwise stated)" exit 1 ;; n|N) exit 2 ;; *) echo "Please answer either y/n" esac done Hope this helps.
