Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > > -  Use cdrecord (or one of the plug-compatible substitutes) in TAO
> > >    burning mode.
> > >
> > >       
> > Rather than one of the "raw" modes? I found several posts suggesting 
> > that the magic was 'raw96r' or similar. I believe I tried that, as well 
> > as -sao, -tao, and -dao, but I can repeat the test easily.
> >     
>
> People who recommend -raw96r instead of -sao usually suffer from the hald 
> bug on Linux that causes hald to distrurb CD writing.
>
> The best solution for that problem is to kill hald ;-)
>
> kill -STOP ` pgrep hald ` 
>   

Noted. Since the only mode which seems to have a hope of working is TAO 
from what people have said, raw96r seems to be a side track. And I would 
certainly edit the configuration rather than just kill hal and do all 
the associated work by hand.,

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