On Thu, 30 May 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:40:20PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I'm just getting used to this version of xcdroast, but was doing a > > > batch of CDROMs last night. In the process, I think once or twice > > > I thought the recording was done while the fixating was in fact > > > still going on, and I forced the drive open anyway. > > > > > > Now I don't know which ones this happened to. And I haven't a clue > > > what 'fixating' really is, or what a CDROM would look like if that > > > part of the process hadn't happened. Can anybody tell me what to > > > look for? > > > > According to the cdrecord man page, a disk that is 'fixated' has a TOC > > (table of contents) for the CD reader. You can use the -fix switch for a > > disk that has been written but not fixated. > > I assume you mean 'cdrecord -fix', but I'm reluctant to do that with > a CDROM that _has_ been fixated, let alone one that was interrupted part > way through. What I wanted to know was how to detect if this is the > case; what symptoms of a missing/malformed fixation or TOC should I > look for?
If you can mount it, then its fine. If you can't, then fixate it. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
