On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: > OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out > gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME > toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop > feature for selecting directories. I am only interested in data CDs, > preferably multisession, but have not been able to get multisession > working properly. First attempt started without the multisession > option - you can't invoke it for a second track. Fair enough. Second > attempt; first track OK, mounted and read OK. Second track went on > but did not seem to have much data. Third track written apparently > but by then the disk was unusable - could not be mounted (on my DVD > drive) although gtoaster reported three tracks. All the writing was > done at 8x after hints in the list about reliability at lower speeds. > On another CD I wrote about 500 Mb, specifying multisession at the > start. That one is OK but the program cannot write any more tracks. > "No usable tracks found" - something like that. So, what is the > secret to burning multisession CDRs? > > I wondered if it had anything to do with fixating. Gtoaster enforces > fixate for track at once recording. Could not find out what fixate > meant, but found a reference in a freeBSD man page on the net which > indicated that it has to do with writing a table of contents to the > disk. Does fixating (fixation?) make the disk unwritable once it is > done? Are there any in depth descriptions of CD recording anywhere? > Most of the documentation seems to be operational, not explanatory. fixate is the end of being able to write more in a multisession, and I if you have experience in E-Z cd creator for winblow$, then you know fixate as "finalize the cd". you will not be able to read or mount a cd in a different drive until it has been fixated. just as a multisession cd written in EZcd will not be readable from a computer that does not have EZcd installed. As far as i know, most all GUIs for burning CDs are just that, a graphic user interface for the command line programs "cdrecord" (and a few others like cddao, that work with cdrecord), and I am sure a lot of folks (and it has been gone over here a lot, so a quick search of the mail list archives will bring much more info) will offer you their command line that they use to burn CDs. but in a text console, "man cdrecord" might be your friend. also some folks find k3b to be a "usable front end"
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