Hey all,
I downloaded and ISO image that I needed to burn to a CD, so I used X-CD-Roast or whatever its called....
It burned really quickly, which was nice, but when it goes to close the CD, it says "error writing tracks". Then when I browse it, it says all files and folders are folders named ???

Is there any reasons as to why this would do this, and how can I fix it.
Or, is there another software I can use (besides Nautulis, as it hates me)?

BTW, in my other windows computer it says drive is not accesible, and I'm not sure it even has the lines on it, as it is only bytes under being full....

That is strange. I think it is dying on the 'Faxating' the CD. It might be that X-CD-Roast has overburn disabled, and won't go above the strict limit of 640 Meg? Just a guess. If the fixate doesn't happen, the CD is a coaster, full of unreadable bytes. Have you tried k3b? It should be installed.

R.O.

Hey,
I would try K3b, but I have no clue how to load an ISO into it and I don't want just the ISO file to be burned.

I just tried K3b and got an I/O error 3 times....
I also tried Nautalus (or whatever its called) and it spent like 10 minutes making a CD image, and then reloaded the CD, took 2 seconds to burn (with no activity showing on the CD), and ejected it saying it was done....

What is the I/O error? Sounds to me like it isn't finding your model. Is it this his error...

'K3b is not able to determine the cdrdao driver for your writer automatically. Please set it manually in the Settings dialog. (for most current drives it would be 'generic-mmc'.'

Burning a downloaded ISO is trivial. Tools-->CD-->Burn CD ISO image. For the origional problem, in k3b, under Settings-->Configure k3b: Writing-->Advanced, set allow overburning to true. This will allow it to exceed the strict limit, which was probably causing XCD Roast to fail.

RO

Thanks. Using that and a new cd burner I was able to burn the ISO image, but my CD drive can write at 52X, but k3b is not allowing me to burn higher than 16x. How can I make it burn faster?

Under Settings-->Configured k3b, see if it lists your devices properly, read and write speed, etc. Let me know. Do your CDs support > 16? Maybe K3B is detecting that this the max of your media.

RO

It list my device properly, and calls it a "cd burner 52x24" yet the max burn speed is 16x and the max read speed is 16x. My CDs are 16x, but I have tried with 48x ones and it says the same. Right now it does not matter much, but when I have to burn vids in the summer, I need a min burning speed of 50x, and thats what the CDs are.... any ideas how to fix this? Or is it possible to have my computer burn the same thing to 2 cd burners simultainously? (did I spell that right?)
Oh, and as a second question, can I burn to drives located on the network? IF so , how can I do this?

If you have the horsepower, you can open 2 K3B sessions (as two users) and burn to 2 CD devices in parallel. Never tried that, but have burnt to my writer while reading from my ROM. I don't know why K3b won't let you if it has detected properly. Maybe detecting the 48x media as only 16? My 24 lets me go to 24, so I don't know.

I have seen quite a few people limited to 16X, but usually because the media was detected as 16X. Try turning burnproof off, see if it lets you select > 16 and let er rip. You may want to test the dma speed of your CD to see if it is in the best setting.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...03/10/3/104268

RO

I get the same problem with K3B. It doesn't properly recognize the max speed of the media, and drops down to 16x.

I finally got it to 52x, but cracked the CD in the process, so I think I shal forgo that high of speeds for now.... also, can I burn to a network burner? It would really speed up my burning process if I could burn to the 6 burners in my house without having to leave my wonderful Linux P4 2.4 ghz computer.....

Hmmm, burn to network CDs, I don't know how you would define them. That would definatly be a new thread.

RO