On Wednesday 15 December 2004 20:14, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On December 15, 2004 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 18:40, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > > > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 19:15, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > > > > > > Hi, it's still me. I've just tested K3b with 5 Philips CD.RWs. Same > > > results. > > > > There are others who know a lot more about this than I do, but a quick > > google suggests that you are far from alone in this problem, and k3b > > seems to be the app most complained about. Have you tried XCDRoast? It > > isn't as pretty as k3b, and you do have to run the setup as root before > > users can use it, but I've generally found it reliable. There are some > > things done easier in k3b, but that would buy you time while you > > troubleshoot this. > > > > Anne > > I believe the cd burning problems I had were actually with cdrecord. k3b is > just a GUI front-end, to make it easier to set up what you want burned. It > is cdrecord that does the heavy lifting, and returns the obscure error > messages when something goes wrong. > > So make sure you've installed the latest version of cdrecord from > http://www.eslrahc.com/ > > Also, make sure you don't have anything else running that's causing cpu or > disk contention, as that can easily cause a buffer underflow, especially on > older machines. Even burnfree, if you have it, doesn't seem to be all it's > cracked up to be. It may prevent an audio cd from being totally destroyed > by a buffer underrun, but as far as I can tell from the results, all it > does is insert blank spots instead. The resulting cds are not particularly > pleasant to listen to. > > Personally, I've never found the brand of media to make any difference at > all. I even had some older cd-rws rated to a max of 4x, and k3b/cdrecord > were smart enough to step down the write speed appropriately. > > Oh, and if the first two cds fail, you can be pretty sure the third, fourth > and fifth will too :^).
Hi, & thanks! Sorry, but no cderecord in http://www.eslrahc.com/ K3b and XCDRoast not working -as usual! Pablo
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