On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 22:50 +0100, Clive at Rational wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded from FC2 to FC4 after being helped by > this mailing list to (hopefully finally) isolating > machine failure to bad memory (using memtest86 as > diagnostic tool). > > Basically I can't get x-cdroast 0.98alpha15 to work > in FC4 yet K3b 0.11.23 works without a problem > > The x-cdroast trying to blank a cd-rw, says the > cd-rw is "busy", retries a few times, then gives up. > > K3b had no problems blanking the same cd-rw. One > of the messgaes given by K3b is that it is unmounting > the CD-RW and this may be the problem in x-cdroast - > although I never had this "busy" problem with previous > version of Fedora. > > This all seems very strange as I believe they are > both front ends to cdrecord - I may be wrong in that > idea though. > > Also writing CD-RW is a whole lot easier to set up > using k3b - none of this setup of hard disk > directories as in x-cdroast. With K3b, Just drag and > drop the files you want on the CD-RW and a little > progress bar at the bottom shows how much of the > available space on the CD-RW has been used. Press > "burn" and it all happens. > > So far, the change to K3B has been painless and K3b > seems easier to use and more reliable than x-cdroast. > > Strangley, the K3b "system check" indicates cdrdao > is not installed and claims this is necessary for > cd-writing. I tried a "yum install" on cdrdao but this > product was not found. So I tried the burning of a > CD-RW anyway without this installed - and it seems to > have created a readable CD fine. > Nice story, similar to mine. Did you have a question? AIUI x-cdroast is not the official package for FC4 and in my experience it has not kept pace with the distro. I switched to k3b about a year ago and have not gone back because of the problems with it since the 2.6 kernel came out. (I used x-cdroast when I was using RH9.) > Regards > > Clive >
