Burning CDs with Nautilus, high failure rate

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jun 28 05:50:41 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 17:01, David L Norris wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:01 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > Has anyone else experienced this huge drop in reliability?
> 
> Works flawlessly for me recording at 52x.  I've recorded dozens of CDs
> and frequently run md5sum against the contents.
> 
> > Are there any specific bugs posted around this that I can monitor?
> 
> Look in Bugzilla for cdrtools.  There's one which mentions buffer
> underrun protection isn't enabled by default on his drive.
> 
> > Or should I give up with Nautilus?
> 
> Do what you will.  ;-)  Try running cdrecord by itself and see if it
> mentions enabling BURN Free or whatnot.

The default config for cdrecord in FC2 is to run the cdburner at maximum
speed, enable burn free, and use a 4m fifo buffer.
See /etc/cdrecord.conf and man cdrecord.





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