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Re: [Sheflug] CD writing

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 07:25, Craig Andrews wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 1:04 am, Richard Stevenson wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Chris J wrote:
> > > > I have a CyberDrive CD Writer and I was given a bunch of CDR's to
> > > > use with it and birtually none of them would work, but the CDRW did.
> > > > Now I've bought 100 CDR's (brown ones) and I've successfully burnt
> > > > about 13 and there are 5 more which Ive tried to burn on and failed.
> > > > What is the failure rate for everyone else? The errors I usually get
> > > > are a failure of power calibration with cdrdao and a no seek complete
> > > > error.
>
> Are the disks actually bad after the various errors? I have found, to my
> confusion, that cdrecord will only burn using DAO with my drive. TAO gives
> the same problems as you are having, but usually 9 times out of 10.
>
> I find that unless it has actually started a burn, the disk is generally
> fine, and it's usually something to do with an inane setting someplace, a
> permissions thing, or me being foolish :)

That seems to be exactly right. I've successfully burnt 3 cd's which had 
failed the first time round. Some have failed with both windows nero software 
and under linux. Actually I've been using KOnCd which seems to want lots of 
different bits and pieces to work. To get cdrdao working I had to mess about 
with it at the command line. But I dont think the problem is limited to the 
software, becuase I experience similar issues under windows.

There can be anything between 15s and 2 mins  before the burn will start.

> What are the permissions on cdrecord and cdrdao?
---xr--rwt    1 root     root       608414 Mar 25 22:17 /usr/bin/cdrdao
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       248123 Apr 30 12:28 /usr/bin/cdrecord
cdrdao looks a little bizare doesn't it?


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Richard, Sheffield, UK.
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