On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 08:50, et wrote: > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:36 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 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. > fixate is the end of being able to write more in a multisession, and I if you > have experience in E-Z cd creator for winblow$, then you know fixate as > "finalize the cd". you will not be able to read or mount a cd in a different > drive until it has been fixated. just as a multisession cd written in EZcd > will not be readable from a computer that does not have EZcd installed. > As far as i know, most all GUIs for burning CDs are just that, a graphic user > interface for the command line programs "cdrecord" (and a few others like > cddao, that work with cdrecord), and I am sure a lot of folks (and it has > been gone over here a lot, so a quick search of the mail list archives will > bring much more info) will offer you their command line that they use to burn > CDs. but in a text console, "man cdrecord" might be your friend. also some > folks find k3b to be a "usable front end"
Has anyone else tried CDBakeoven? Like everyone else, I hate losing CD blanks to a GUI or app that coughs up a hairball. After having tried all the ones on the Mandrake CD's and a few others, I've settled on CDBakeoven. It works very similarly to EZCD Creator, and also detects both IDE and SCSI emulated drives. I haven't tried K3B, but I will soon. If it gives me the same errors that I've seen posted on this list, it'll be dropped faster that a hot potato! One thing with CDBakeoven though,..the only version that seems to work well on KDE3.x is 1.8.9-4 . All others either don't work due to a dependency on linpng2 or get installed in the /opt/kde3 directory, and then just don't work for one reason or another. Lanman
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