Re: OT: cdburning: tao, dao and fixating
* Sebastiaan (S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to burn CD's with cdrecord, but I have a problem. I can burn an iso
> image (made with isofs) to a blank disc, but when the disc gets fixated, I
> directly get an error of the form 'Illegal Seek Error' or 'Segment not
> found'.
>
> The idea I have of buring in track at once is:
> - burn track by track starting from the center of the disc
> - when fixating, go back to the center and write some final data
>
> On the other hand, disk at once:
> - just start at the center and burn in one trip
>
>
> Because the drive is pretty old, I have the idea that the laser
> calibration is not very good anymore. So when the disc gets fixated, the
> drive is unable to find the precise location to burn. Sometimes it works
> correct (i.e. the disc gets fixated), and sometimes it fails. I have not
> found any regularity in it.
I have an HP 7500 (2x2x24) and ran into the same problem. No amount of
fiddling with it helped, so I got a new burner as they are pretty cheap
nowadays. I'd be interested in hearing if you found a way around it as I
still keep the old burner in an older machine.
Alex.
> So I want to try to burn in disc at once mode, but cdrecord does not
> support that option for my drive. However, the drive specs say that it is
> capable of doing that.
>
> For completeness:
> - my drive is a HP CDwriter 7200+ (ide drive with scsi emulation)
> - I record with: cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=2 -v fs=8m -eject data.iso
> - blank cd's are Arita's (my dad never had serious trouble with these)
>
> So, my questions:
>
> - is my idea of the cdburning proces correct?
> - if so, is that really the problem (and if not, what could be)?
> - how to force cdrecord to burn in disc at once
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastiaan
>
>
>
>
>
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Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>
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