Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi, chi kwan: I interpret this as the burner and media not getting along well, sometimes showing up with cdrecord because it may in some cases use different commands depending on the vendor quirks. I've seen similar messages from certain burners when changing media brand. It is not some general problem with CD-R or DVD-R, I use cdrecord with then all the time because I burn for several old devices which really dislike +R media. Joerg Schilling: It may be that this is a problem caused by "hald" or it's recent replacement (I belive it is called "device-kit" or similar) disturbing the write process. You may like to kill all related processes before tryng to write again.I agree as long as you say "may be," because I've seen this on older distributions which predate hal, which are on old software for one reason or another (technical or political ;-) ). This may also be caused by Gnome options about media, where an option is selected to auto-mount certain types of media and the mounter needs to check the device every so often and see if there is a media and what kind it is, you can get a "seek zero, read" in the middle of a series of writes, resulting in an attempt to write over an already-written sector. Before anyone suggests that this is an OS error, the OS provides tools by which applications can prevent this, if the applications fail to use them than the fix lies in the application (and the user who chose the application). One program is hal, as Joerg noted, but there are others. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence. |