On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 11:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: > OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out > gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME > toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop > feature for selecting directories.
I mainly use XCDroast, and could help with general instructions on that if it will help, but I haven't really tried multisession (I usually have to exclude less important bits to get all I want on a disk :) ) I am only interested in data CDs, > preferably multisession, but have not been able to get multisession > working properly. First attempt started without the multisession > option - you can't invoke it for a second track. Fair enough. Second > attempt; first track OK, mounted and read OK. Second track went on > but did not seem to have much data. Third track written apparently > but by then the disk was unusable - could not be mounted (on my DVD > drive) although gtoaster reported three tracks. All the writing was > done at 8x after hints in the list about reliability at lower speeds. > On another CD I wrote about 500 Mb, specifying multisession at the > start. That one is OK but the program cannot write any more tracks. > "No usable tracks found" - something like that. So, what is the > secret to burning multisession CDRs? > > I wondered if it had anything to do with fixating. Gtoaster enforces > fixate for track at once recording. Could not find out what fixate > meant, but found a reference in a freeBSD man page on the net which > indicated that it has to do with writing a table of contents to the > disk. Does fixating (fixation?) make the disk unwritable once it is > done? Are there any in depth descriptions of CD recording anywhere? > Most of the documentation seems to be operational, not explanatory. Undoubtedly your problem is caused by fixating. That effectively closes the disk from further writes. Most non-burner drives have problems reading a non-fixated disk, I believe, though I think it is largely a software problem, as the burner program is the one that handles that. (Could be off-beam here, though) If GToaster forces fixation then use something else for multisession. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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