[olug] frustrating trying to burn CDs!

[Jonathan Warren]

what output do you get from cdrecord -scanbus?  You may want to try without -dao option like this:
cdrecord -v -v speed=16 dev=0,0,0 -data Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso
-Jon

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:06:24AM -0500, Ryan wrote:
> Anyone had luck burning CD's with Linux?  Here is the command I'm using:
> 
> cdrecord -v -dao speed=16 driver=mmc_cdr dev=0,0,0 \
> Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso
> 
> (I gave up trying to use the gui's a few weeks ago, it kept locking up my
> system)
> 
> And I think its working (finally after a lot of different stuff I tried), 
> but it took like an hour to burn the CD.  I wasn't around when it finished, 
> but after running for 10 minutes it said it had done 117 of 694 megs. It 
> usually took 5-10 minutes with Nero under Win98.  The burner is a Lite On 
> 16x.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ryan
> 
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