Burning ISOs

Leon Stringer leon.stringer at ntlworld.com
Sun Feb 26 12:13:02 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:31 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> In Linux, I'm starting to think the answer is "no".  I got my first
> CD burner about 7-8 years ago, and used it in Linux for many years.
> I also used CDRWin and another app I forget the name of now in Windows
> occasionally when I wanted to burn DAO mode, but once DAO mode was
> supported in Linux on my burner, I stuck with Linux burning using
> xcdroast for a very long time.
> 
> Then at some point, something changed in the kernel which broke CD
> burning for me, and it wasn't fixed for months.  During that time,
> I switched to using CDRwin for everything in Windows again.  It
> was frustrating rebooting just to burn a CD, but necessary.

This is exactly the root of my frustration. With FC1 burning was 100%
reliable. Then it broke and I've had trouble ever since. Presumably that
was the change between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and change to IDE CD drive
handling.




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