Re: cdrecord - strange failure -SOLVED
On 10 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 06 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I had to burn 20 CDs. All but one of the first 18 went off OK; I put the
> > single failure down to a faulty disk. But after I'd done 18 they all
> > started failing. I tried a disk from a different source but the same
> > thing happened. I then tried to burn disks in a different computer
> > (running the same version of Debian) and the same failure occurred.
> >
> [snip]
>
> I eventually discovered that my /etc/defaults/cdrecord file was
> misconfigured in some way. This had not mattered previously but perhaps
> some recent upgrade showed up the problem. I'm not actually quite clear
> what was wrong but I rewrote the file in the light of the man page and
> the problem disappeared. I now have things working on the desktop; the
> laptop requires more work to sort it out.
Postscript to the above: in the end it wasn't the /etc/defaults/cdrecord
that was the problem: it was simply a matter of bad disks!
Anthony
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