CD burning using K3b 0.11.23 or x-cd-roast 0.98alpha15 under FC4 2.6.12

[Clive at Rational]

Hi,

   I upgraded from FC2 to FC4 after being helped by
this mailing list to (hopefully finally) isolating
machine failure to bad memory (using memtest86 as
diagnostic tool).

   Basically I can't get x-cdroast 0.98alpha15 to work
in FC4 yet K3b 0.11.23 works without a problem

    The x-cdroast trying to blank a cd-rw, says the
cd-rw is "busy", retries a few times, then gives up.

    K3b had no problems blanking the same cd-rw. One
of the messgaes given by K3b is that it is unmounting
the CD-RW and this may be the problem in x-cdroast -
although I never had this "busy" problem with previous
version of Fedora.

    This all seems very strange as I believe they are
both front ends to cdrecord - I may be wrong in that
idea though.

    Also writing CD-RW is a whole lot easier to set up
using k3b - none of this setup of hard disk
directories as in x-cdroast. With K3b, Just drag and
drop the files you want on the CD-RW and a little
progress bar at the bottom shows how much of the
available space on the CD-RW has been used. Press
"burn" and it all happens.

   So far, the change to K3B has been painless and K3b
seems easier to use and more reliable than x-cdroast.

   Strangley, the K3b "system check" indicates cdrdao
is not installed and claims this is necessary for
cd-writing. I tried a "yum install" on cdrdao but this
product was not found. So I tried the burning of a
CD-RW anyway without this installed - and it seems to
have created a readable CD fine.

Regards

Clive