FC3 can no longer successfully burn CDs]

[Fulko Hew]

Fulko Hew adds to his own post:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:19:44AM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
>>
>>> 1/ The timer on the screensaver does not work.
>>>    - Time values < 20 minutes are obeyed.
>>>    - Time values >20 minutes always results in a timeout of 20 minutes.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a BIOS set 20 minute display timeout floating around too by
>> any chance ?
>>
>
> My BIOS has no 'apparent' options.  Actually it has very few options.  
> :-(

And remember, this CD burn problem _is_   kernel specific.
I will do tests later today with older kernels and this 20 minute 
timeout issue
and report back.


>>> iii/  A good burn (when read) will read extra data past the sixe of the
>>>       original ISO written (15 x 2048 bytes)
>>>
>>
>> Thats correct behaviour. The end of a CD is very low accuracy only.
>>
>
> OK.  But (in my nievity) doesn't that make it difficult to 'dup' CDs?
>
> ie. you couldn't do a:   dd if=/dev/cdrom of=test.iso bs=2048
>
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