K3b blew my writer (5 of them)

[Chadley Wilson]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 11:46, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
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>     I was not able to write anything "on the fly" with k3b <= 0.11.4,
> which was a pipe problem in k3b of cource. K3b is just graphical
> frontend to mkisofs/cdrecord/..., so it should not be responsible
> for any hardware damage. I used to think there's no way software can
> do any real damage to a hardware device, but it seems that latest CD
> Writers are a piece of crap... so try updating your firmware as
> suggested in some other replys.
>     I wonder where the world is heading to... I have *old* FDDs and FD
> controllers (more than two years old) that still work fine, but all
> new ones can not survive ten rewritings.
> > I'll try a reinstall of cdrecord and look for a newer version.
> > Later
> > ...
> Well That exactly what I thought,
Now would any know if there is way to prove this theory, and if it is
bug or something we can at least have record of it for others to see.


> -- 
> Regards,
>   Doncho N. Gunchev    Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org
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