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Karol Pietrzak wrote:
On 26 Dec 2001, David Johanson wrote:
Until just a couple of days ago I had no trouble writing CDs on this 7.1 SuSE system, but for the past few trys I have been getting repeated failures when trying to copy a CD. The Fifo buffer fills completely, then the writing begins and makes it to between 1 to 3% then the Fifo buffer begins to empty while writing continues until the buffer is at zero at which time the system beeps, the CD tray ejscts and I get the Error writing tracks failure notice.
Switching to the windoze side of the house I get the CDs to write using either drive - Todhiba DVD or Nec CD-ROM for read and the Plextor to write. However, I note that I can always get a write to completion if I wrtie first to the hard drive and then from the hard drive to the Plestor but not always if I do a direct disk to disk. Of course this is different software, cdclone, so that may give some credence to your hardware thoughts even though the cd --> HD --> cd always works.
cdrecord 1.9 came out 1999. I highly recommend you upgrade to the latest version (1.11a12) before we jump to any conclusions (I'm swinging toward hardware failure).
Tonight I tried the same process under Linux that worked on the windoze side of the house and got the same results; write to HD first, then from HD to blank Cd and it works every time. So I'm thinking that this has something to do with the reading of the buffer holding the data but don't know quit how to access it. I tried installing the new cdrtools using the SuSE wizard but the process runs to a point ( two of the three green lights lit) and then stops; won't go any further so now I guess I need to learn the ./configure, make, make install method of getting things installed. Not having tried this is the past I'm moving cautiously. Any suggestions for the installation of the cdrtools and xcdroast packages gladly accepted. ;-)
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