| From: Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | > I tried k3b, my normal tool. Tools: Burn CD Image. When I clicked | > "Start", it hung, not even updating the window damage. | > | Are you sure the drive is working? Yes, I'm sure. If you read to the end of my too-long story, you will see: The cdrecord command worked when I used dev=/dev/scd0. The real k3b problem was something screwed up with NFS, I think. But why lsof needed to do a stat on that mount point is not at all clear to me. Nothing to do with the actual burner. | Did you put a writable CD or DVD in the | drive? And if you are writing to DVD, is the DVD the proper type, of +R or -R? Through all this I had a blank CD-R in the drive. The final cdrecord command burnt a CD that I could then boot on another computer (the original point of the exercise). | Have you run `mount` to see the optical drive device? Mount does not know what to do with a blank CD. | I don't often need to burn a CD or DVD -- today was my first time in a while | that I've done it. I much prefer using flash drives to transport files. | Capacities are generally larger, and flash drives seem less prone to damage | than CD/DVD media. I needed a bootable CD. | If I must burn a DVD, I like to use growisofs. I don't know if it knows how to do CDs. I do know that it won't do --padsize=128k when burning a .iso.
