On Sun, February 17, 2013 6:22 pm, david wrote: > On 02/17/2013 02:28 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:50:39PM -1000, david wrote: >>> I don't always agree with Debian's personal idiocies, such as their >>> hatred of cdrecord. I replaced wodim with cdrecord, and was >>> surprised to find out that CD burning WORKED ON MY LAPTOP AGAIN. >>> Wodim had been failing with "hardware" errors for a few years before >>> that. >> >> Were you using wodim from the command line? You should file a bug, if it >> is not working for you. > > I was using wodim via K3B. Wodim was reporting hardware errors (via K3B) > with my CD drive. My laptop was old then, it's a couple of years older > now, so I figured the CD drive was going bad. So I quit burning CDs on > it. Then I read the cdrecord team's side of the issue with Debian, and > decided to see if cdrecord would work. It did, successfully burning CDs > on my laptop without hardware errors. I have had problems with k3b as well (two bad dvds before I gave up), if I use brasero it's ok. I think brasero cd burning (from a toc file) uses cdrdao. gcdmaster is the tool I like best though. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user