CD burning problem

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Dec 19 06:09:47 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 14:50 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:27:04PM +0100, Jim Dishaw (dishawjp) wrote:
> > Oops,
> > 
> > It was late last night when I initially posted, and I realize now that the command line was incorrect.  However even fixing that error still gives me errors and no burn.  The output is as follows:
> > 
> > [dishawjp at eunix ~]$ cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 -dev=/dev/cdwriter /home/dishawjp/docs
> > cdrecord: No write mode specified.

<snip>

> > And then it just hangs and nothing happens.
> > 
> > Any thoughts now that I've corrected one of my mistakes?
> > 
> I still can't understand why people insist on using cdrecord to write
> to CD-s instead of xcdroast or k3d. It just makes ones life more
> complicated.
> -- 
> 
Aaron

AFAICT all of the other tools (xcdroast and k3b for sure) use cdrecord
as the back end.
It is simple to do that from the command line and bypasses the GUI.

Is they want to do so (and I often do), why complain?





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