Craig White wrote:
speaking of this...sorry to steal the thread (well not too sorry)...
my main workstation (now FC-3, previously FC-1) has always failed writing CD's at the time of fixating (regardless of speed) - it hangs and never finishes. It has always done that - regardless of which brand of media. I haven't bothered with it since I have the identical drive in my Windows XP machine and it works - and another one in my Linux server which works too.
I just kind of assumed that there is something wrong with the drive - any suggestions or info to direct me to?
There's a bug somewhere in Fedora affecting recording of DVD+R media. It is not related to the brand of media, but rather to the type of media. Specifically, DVD+R media. All other types (including DVD+RW, reportedly) work OK. Since I got same behaviour with three different programs (cdrecord, growisofs, and that gnome GUI thing), it might also be kernel related.
If you are having trouble with CD-R media, than it is probably something different.
For more details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136665
I burn DVD+R here all the time, using growisofs and K3B, no problems. My drive is a NEC 3520-A. The media is TKD DVD+R 8X single layer. The resulting disks work fine in my computer and my DVD player.
Regards,
John
