On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:36 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.
Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the way it works. Civileme
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