[CS-FSLUG] udev and SATA DVDRs

Chad Fluegge chadfluegge at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 21:20:25 CST 2010


Have you tried xfburn?

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at soulkiln.org> wrote:
> Cia Watson wrote:
>
>> I guess I wonder if maybe the issue is software related (like brasero
>> which imho stinks) or maybe not?
>
> As I understand it, K3B uses cdrecord and Brasero uses wodim. The former
> defaults to SAO while almost everything else is TAO. According to one
> bug reporter, the latter is what causes the problem.
>
> So I never get anything using Brasero, and can only burn smaller ISOs
> with K3B. I sense part of the issue is how cutting edge the hardware is.
> Mine is relatively recent.
>
> I recently did a 226MB ISO to CD, and K3B did fine. With a 448MB ISO, it
> had errors, but not until it tried to verify. DVD burning is hopeless.
> Even with openSUSE, that gave me errors which K3B didn't even catch.
>
> So far, having tried several Linux distros on this thing, those that
> could recognize the hardware at all (two failed) have not been able to
> burn cleanly, and I am not alone. Only while it had Vista or Win7 did I
> get good results. I ran them only to see what they were like, and I
> really don't want to go back to that just because I can't burn disks.
> But I do burn quite a few, and I'm getting tired of the hassle.
>
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