On Monday 05 April 2004 22:18, Chadley Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 13:55, Mihai Maties wrote: > > On Monday 05 April 2004 02:14, Chadley Wilson wrote: > snipped > > > > Why don't you use the latest K3b version (0.11.9) ? http://www.k3b.org for > > more info or http://k3b.xcyb.org for rpms. > > > > > > Mihai > > Mihai > Thanks > I actually thought I had the latest version installed, Seems my apt repo > is a bit behind, > However I have now installed 0.11.9 and although the writer is still > alive it still seems to get confused when I set it to make more than one > copy and hangs up my system. > The question here is that if k3b only uses software like cdrecord then > would the problem not be with cdrecord? > I was not able to write anything "on the fly" with k3b <= 0.11.4, which was a pipe problem in k3b of cource. K3b is just graphical frontend to mkisofs/cdrecord/..., so it should not be responsible for any hardware damage. I used to think there's no way software can do any real damage to a hardware device, but it seems that latest CD Writers are a piece of crap... so try updating your firmware as suggested in some other replys. I wonder where the world is heading to... I have *old* FDDs and FD controllers (more than two years old) that still work fine, but all new ones can not survive ten rewritings. > I'll try a reinstall of cdrecord and look for a newer version. > Later > ... -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79
