Burning CDs/DVDs - quite a problem
 

Dear All,

I have a problem with K3B. As a matter of fact, for each CD/DVD burned, I have 1 trashed by K3B. I explain:

When burning CD/DVD images, K3B starts writing the lead-in (and filling the buffer), only to give me a "resource not available" error before reporting any progress. By that time, however, the blank disk is no longer completely blank... If I retry, without closing K3B, to burn the image again, on a new disk, it works flawlessly... So I need 2 blank disks per disk burned, which is a huge attrition rate (the disks and drive are not at fault, under windoze I get only 1 error every 50 or so disks).

I've tried inserting the disk before opening K3B (and telling SuSE to do nothing), or after clicking on the "burn" button (when K3B demands a disk). The result is exactly the same: first disk is dead, the second OK.

I'm running SuSE 10.1, on a 3500+ Athlon64 with 1 GB RAM. The DVD writer is a Samsung 16x16 - Doble Layer.

Any ideas on how to solve the problem?

Thanks!

I know a lot of people, including myself often want a solution to the problem, rather than being told, use another program...

But at least to check whether the issue is the software or something else, you should probably try another program to verify it is K3B, not your burner crapping out or not a kernel issue, etc. So using Nero, or one of the dozen free CD recodring softwares available for Linux, try burning a few with another one.

The burner is not crapping, since it works fine under windoze.

I guess it is an initialization issue, since the first time K3B initializes the drive correctly (writing starts), but fails to realize that everything's going fine. On the second try, however, it always realizes that everything's fine, and burns the disk without a glitch.

Whether it is a soft or kernel issue, I guess that I must try a second program. Any free recording soft to recommend?

Nero Linux is free for 30 days, so it would be free to test.
cdrdao, cdrecord, mkisofs, Nautlis burner, xcdroast and probably many more are all free programs. Of them xcdroast is supposed to be fairly good, so that may be the place to start.