Re: xcdroast coasters

[tallison@tacocat.net]

> Hi Tom!
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Tom Allison wrote:
>
>> nate wrote:
>> >>I've heard a lot of good things about xcdroast.
>> >>But I have never EVER made anything but coasters with this one.
>> However,
>> >>it did work in Windows and it can burn very small ISO's (gentoo
>> >>installation CD).
>> >
>> >
>> >is your drive a SCSI drive or IDE using ide-scsi? I've only used
>> >SCSI drives, perhaps ide is different. Also XCDRoast is only a frontend
>> >to cdrecord, which most linux apps use for burning cds, if you get
>> coasters
>> >in XCDroast chances are good you'll get them in other apps too. what
>> >kind of CD-R media are you using?
>> >
>>
>> Memorex CD-write media 800MB
>>
>
> You may want to try using fujifilm CD's or something else.  I was
> having big problems with Memorex CD's.  I was constantly getting the
> same errors and burning coasters with them.
>
> Just a thought.
>

I fried the last one two days ago.
Picked up another spool.  Some brand with a V (Verbatim?)
more coasters.

But 'dao' might be a better clue (posted elsewhere on the list)