[akonstam: CD writing mystery.]

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:25:54PM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 14:36, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Best, Darren
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.

Part of my question is whether changing the parameters in
cdrecord.conf would help with the Nautilus approach?
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