On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:25:54PM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 14:36, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The Nautilus based CD burning system does not work for > > me. In thinking about it I decided the problem might be that my new > > CDRW devices are 52X but the CD-R disks are rated to write at up to > > 48X. Could it be that the problems is that interface (unlike xcdroast) > > does not allow you to adjust the writing speed? What do you think of that > > problem or do you have another suggested solution? For example the > > Nautilus CD burning window is really a gui for cdrecord. Is tweaking the > > config file for cdrecord maybe the answer? > > Do you have a copy of Windows on that same machine? The only reason I > ask is that it might be worth investigating whether the problem is to do > with your drive simply "not liking" your media. I had a problem once > burning some CDs under Linux which I thought was software based -- I > spent ages trying to track it down. Then, out of curiousity, I rebooted > into Windows and tried to burn the CD and it still failed. I then tried > the discs in another machine with a different brand drive and it worked > fine. So then I thought that there must be something wrong with the > CD-RW drive in my machine, but when I tried a different brand of discs > everything worked again. It seems that some drives simply don't like > certain brands of discs -- now, before I buy and blank CDs in bulk I > always try and buy just one first to check it's compatible with my > drive. > > Best, Darren Again we are having some confusion. I have not problem writing the CD's with xcdroast or with Nero in Windows. In both cases, I can control the writing speed. Part of my question is whether changing the parameters in cdrecord.conf would help with the Nautilus approach? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
