Introducing DVD-R Tools [LWN.net]

Introducing DVD-R Tools

Posted Mar 2, 2006 3:54 UTC (Thu) by dneto (guest, #4954)
Parent article: Introducing DVD-R Tools

I've been Linux user since kernel 1.0.8, so I have tolerated a lot over the years. For a long time I
have been befuddled by the flakiness of CD burning on stock cheap hardware, i.e. the kind of
hardware most users have.

About a year and a half ago I expected a much better Linux system by upgrading from a very stale
Red Hat 6.0 to Ubuntu 1.0 on my circa 1998 student's machine. And I did, overall. But still cd
recording was flaky at best (sometimes hanging at the end of a CD burn, sometimes losing the
ATAPI CDRW drive after one burn).

Kudos to anybody who will fix the situation with free software.

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Introducing DVD-R Tools

Posted Mar 2, 2006 16:59 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

I might wager a guess that your issue is perhaps with your burner, or perhaps even with something like your power supply. I have been a Linux user since the 2.0.x days and have burned CDs for much of them. When I had flakiness, it was due to the kludge of ide-scsi and playing with settings. cdrecord -scanbus would simply fail if your modules were not in order.

These days I mostly just use the wonderful K3B and no longer worry about modules. Though I do occasionally burn an ISO via cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc /path/to/iso

I thank Jorg for his wonderful program, but I am infinitely more happy with the Linux way of addressing devices.