[olug] frustrating trying to burn CDs!

[Jonathan Warren]

I would say try a slower speed like 8 or 12 and see if it still burns at 1x.  I think if you got good burns your deffinetly at 1x.  Something is not working corrrectly maybe a new version of cdrecord is in order?

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Ryan wrote:
> At 04:16 PM 10/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 08:06, 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
> > >
> >Maybe I'm WAAAAY off base here, but is cdrecord 'seeing' your speed=16
> >flag since it doesn't have the preceding "-"?
> >
> >Here's the command I issued the last I'm I burned:
> >cdrecord -data -speed=32 -dev=0,0,0 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc1-CD3.i586.iso
> >
> >??
> 
>  From reading the man page I understood I could just say value=option on 
> the command line.  When cdrecord starts burning it says its going to do it 
> at 16x, so I think its getting it.  But it must be burning at 1x for some 
> reason.  Or it really is burning at 16x but there's something else slowing 
> it way down.
> 
> I tried one without the -dao option, as suggested earlier, but it still 
> took over an hour.
> 
> My system gets pretty slow while this is burning, too.  I'm running RH7.3 
> on an Athlon XP 1800 with 256MB.
> 
> Should I try another tool?  Can cdrdao be used to do about the same thing? 
>  From what I read in the man page for that it always needs a TOC file, 
> which I don't really understand.  Just burn my ISO image, please!
> 
> Should I be checking or setting anything with hdparam?  Anytime I run 
> hdparam on that device it tells me the device is not supported.
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> 
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