Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> OK.  I thought I would try some different versions of software and see
>> what happens.  With the info Neil provided about what does what, I
>> thought I would try a different version of cdrtools.  I went to a older
>> version and it worked fine on the first try with my backup file.  It is
>> as I type burning the second DVD with no errors yet.  I'm using
>> cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha57-r1 at the moment.  Maybe this will work.
>>      
> As mentioned before, if it works for you _after_ this change, you did not prove
> anything. In special you did not prove that the change is a result _from_
> changing releases.
>
> There are many changes in cdrtools since January 2009, but there was no change
> that could affect your problem.
>
> Your media was either accepted after several tries by the drive for unknown
> reasons and is now usable in general again or you are observing a problem
> caused by "hald". Note that hald does not care about the CD/DVD/BD Writing
> process and interrupts it. This is why hald may cause any strange result.
>
>
> Jörg
>
>    

All I know is that I downgraded cdrtools and it worked.  I didn't even 
eject the media.  Since it works now , I don't guess there is any way to 
test it.  Next time I do a backup, I'll upgrade and see if it fails.  If 
it does, maybe then we can figure it out.  I'll go back to my current 
version and see if it works then.  May be a bit before I do backups 
again tho.

Dale

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