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Re: [PLUG] Gnome - xcdroast - what's burn:///
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Michael Leone wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:40, Douglas Lentz wrote:
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.
I'm honestly curious - a name brand Sony 52X IDE CD-RW is like $50
(after rebate) - non-name brands are probably less. Wouldn't it make
more sense to just junk that clunker and get a new one, rather than
spend so much on blown CDs, and your time? (I'll go out on a limb here,
and presume that your time is worth something, at least).
Well, of course it makes sense - but there goes my dream of a home
network built
entirely out of parts from the trash. :-)
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