Douglas Lentz on 7 Jul 2004 01:21:06 -0000


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


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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