[akonstam: CD writing mystery.]

[Jim Cornette]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:25:54PM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 14:36, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>>The Nautilus based CD burning system  does not work for
>>>me. In thinking about it I decided the problem might be that my new
>>>CDRW devices are 52X but the CD-R disks are rated to write at up to
>>>48X. Could it be that the problems is that interface (unlike xcdroast)
>>>does not allow you to adjust the writing speed? What do you think of that
>>>problem or do you have another suggested solution? For example the
>>>Nautilus CD burning window is really a gui for cdrecord. Is tweaking the
>>>config file for cdrecord maybe the answer?
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>>Do you have a copy of Windows on that same machine? The only reason I
>>ask is that it might be worth investigating whether the problem is to do
>>with your drive simply "not liking" your media. I had a problem once
>>burning some CDs under Linux which I thought was software based -- I
>>spent ages trying to track it down. Then, out of curiousity, I rebooted
>>into Windows and tried to burn the CD and it still failed. I then tried
>>the discs in another machine with a different brand drive and it worked
>>fine. So then I thought that there must be something wrong with the
>>CD-RW drive in my machine, but when I tried a different brand of discs
>>everything worked again. It seems that some drives simply don't like
>>certain brands of discs -- now, before I buy and blank CDs in bulk I
>>always try and buy just one first to check it's compatible with my
>>drive.
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>>Best, Darren
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>Again we are having some confusion. I have not problem writing the
>CD's with xcdroast or with Nero in Windows. In both cases, I can
>control the writing speed.
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>Part of my question is whether changing the parameters in
>cdrecord.conf would help with the Nautilus approach?
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I just navigated to an iso image and it gave a screen where you could 
select the write speed through a pull down menu. It is in 
nautilus-cd-burner-2.6.0-3 that is available in rawhide (development). 
Is there a similar pulldown selection box in FC2?

Jim