[nflug] RE: Burning a CD-R

[JJ Neff]

No software - no matter how pretty or goooey will do anything if your
underlying kernel and cdrecord DO not like the burner or work correctly 

YOU MUST try to burn first with the cmd line cdrecord (or cdrdao) as that is
all that is being called when you use KDE, XCDROAST etc etc.  If you can't make
it work the GUI on top won't be able to either...

Now when you've read all the cdrecord MAN page, and the ever continuing saga of
cdrecord VS 2.6 kernel and atapi interface etc etc etc you'll realize why I
stopped burning cds and burn DVDs exclusively - dvd+rwtools works just fine. 
Believe you me, I really want to burn CDs but cdrecord does not work with my
hardware under my kernel - not much I can do unless I'm willing to 1) reboot
into 2.4 kernel and use scsi emulation (and Maybe work) 2) become an expert C
programmer and fork cdrecord and start over with a non scsi specific
interface...

Hmm Let me start reading some more :-)

JJN

--- Richard Hubbard <hubbardr at adelphia.net> wrote:

> i've never had any problems with xcdroast
> 
> another idea is to be a tough guy and do it through the command line tools.
> 
> (_The Linux cookbook_ by carla schroder gives a no nonsense step by step 
> for how to use these tools, or you can try the man pages.)
> 
> Me, I'm a wimp that uses xcdroast.  The nice thing is that it is 
> strictly x, and doesn't depend on gnome or kde.
> 
> 
> Ron Maggio wrote:
> 
> > Hi, all
> > Well...I tried both toast in KDE and k3d in Gnome, and both suck! 
> > Neither will burn! It goes through all the motions after I gave it 
> > what to burn, and it just sits there! Nothing! I even left it alone 
> > and did something else for 15 minutes and came back to see it had done 
> > nothing. Stalled in limbo land, it was suggested that Nero had a 
> > product for Linux. To me that beats the whole purpose, to get away 
> > from commercial software. I really don't want to go back to Windows, 
> > but it seems I will if I can get full usage of this system. What the 
> > hell good is it if you can't do the same as you can do in Windows. Oh 
> > by the way, I did RTFM. I read all that there could be to read about 
> > how to use this software, and I still can't get it to work. The 
> > hardware is somewhat new, and worked very well under Windows. Any help 
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks, Ron M.
> >
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