----this boring bit taken from the xcdroast faq X-CD-Roast is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the command-line cdrtools. You can do anything X-CD-Roast does yourself using these tools - but it's nicer and easier with the frontend. The cdrtools contain "cdrecord" (does do the hard job supporting all the cdwriters and is doing the actual writing of CDs), "readcd" (reads data-tracks of CDs - its a portable replacement of "dd"), "mkisofs" (masters CD-/images from given file-trees on the harddisk) and "cdda2wav" (reads audio-tracks). Cdrecord, readcd and mkisofs are maintained by Joerg Schilling, cdda2wav by Heiko Eissfeldt and X-CD-Roast by me, Thomas Niederreiter. ---- the point of it is that if xcdroast can do it, then cdrecord can do it too. Well Steve you are an engineer so I am sure you will get to the bottom of it!
Shawn > Finally got a chance to look at this again. I tried updating my > kernel > to see if that would take care of things. I used the Debian-packaged > > 2.4.19 kernel. Yes, I know how to build a kernel, I just don't like > extra work. :) > > Still no joy on the ripping with the device. I keep getting the same > > errors that was getting before. > > On a whim I tried burning a CD with xcdroast. Amazingly, this > worked > with both the old (2.4.18) kernel and the new one. My drive I guess > is > equipped with some software that reduces the chance of buffer > underruns. > I guess that xcdroast knows how to use this, while cdrecord does not. > > I don't know. I'm still very interested in getting this fixed the > "right way". However, since I can rip with my dvd drive, and the > cdrw > now works, the priority of this is now much farther down the list. > > Thanks to all who helped out. If you have any more ideas, I'm > willing > to listen. > > Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephen W. Juranich > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Electrical Engineering > http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic > University of Washington > http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]