>>> I've had the same problem before, changed cd brand, no more problem > >The weird thing (sorry that I forgot to mention that) is that burning >data cd's with k3b or commandline works perfectly fine. It's apparently >just the audio-cd part that is having the hick-ups. Perhaps the philips >cd-rw80 discs are not made for it. > >I shall try burning an audio cd with a plextor rewritable, see if that >helps any. (I want to use rewritables since that is so convenient for >in the car. :-)
Okay. Did the test. A regular backup on the unwilling Philips CD-RW80 went just fine. Blanking, burning and it verified OK to the last bit. Then I blanked and did the audio-cd burning with the Plextor cd-rw. And the verdict of the jury (the cd-player in my stereo): 'no disc'. I tried burning it with speed 1, but cdrdao insists on not going lower than 4. This is the cd-rw's lower limit so that figures. So after a burn, I tried mounting the cd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ mount /mnt/cdrom /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock Trying to mount a regular audio-cd yielded the same result, so that does not help. The last thing I tried then was to grab a no-name cd-r that I got at a concert somewhere. Burnt audio as I did with both other types of disc and this time the cd plays in the stereo. No problem. Had a thought and loaded gnome-cd (cd-player program). It loaded the cd-r and behold... it played. I popped in the plextor cd-rw and... it played too! Looks like my stereo's cd-player is really picky about what it wants to play. (I bought that when cd-recording was still rather new, apparently it is just not able to recognise these modern cd-rw discs.) So I am going to try both these discs (cd-r and cd-rw) in the car, where they are meant to be anyway, and see what that brings. So this call is closed for now. You live and learn. Thanks again! Paul
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