[PLUG] Gnome - xcdroast - what's burn:///

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

Red Hat 9.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge of burning or cdroast can answer this...

When I insert a blank CD in my burner, Nautilus frequently thrusts the 
burn:/// folder in my face. What's burn:///? I can't seem to cd to it 
using bash.

I have a "remanufactured" Acer CD R/W drive that I picked up for change 
at Computer Renaissance a few years ago. It sat on the shelf until I put 
together my bare-bones box. And yes,  I have burned CDs (audio and data) 
on it using xcdroast. It just doesn't really like to work. I average 
about eight failures for each successful burn. Usually, it reports a bad 
starting sector, performs OPC,  the red light goes on, it tries for a 
while, it reports that fifo was 0% full, and ejects the CD. So I try 
again, switching back and forth between DAO, TAO, and RAW16, and 
eventually it works and the CD burns fine. Slow - I burn at 2X.

Box is a 2G Celeron, 256MD. Also cheap.

What's up?  Is it case of the CD burner being crap, d'you think? Reads 
fine - never had a problem with that.

Thanks.



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