[SWLUG] Meeting/Cyfarfod << Caerfyrddin / CD writung

[ilyan]

My machine is a bit old, still has 5.25  floppy drive as well as 144.  
was was producing CDs well with K3b.   rested for about a year, then 
when restarted (I could not remember the pasword for half a day) was not 
doing its CD  job.   the newest thing in it is a writemaster DVD 
writer.   THe disks I use are Maxell, Octron(Lidl), Memorex, and some 
unbranded.

Just tried cleaning the Drive with a cleaner CD I had forgotten about.   
This memory job can be quite tricky,   Perhaps it will be better by if I 
upgrade to something that will write a CD direct off a flash drive.
Thanks all
Ilyan



On 14/02/2011 09:55, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 09:10 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 14 February 2011 00:29, ilyan<ilyan.thomas at virgin.net>  wrote:
>>> THanks Colin,
>>>   it did produce a viable CD at 15 instead of 40.   Perhaps I should get
>>> a new disc writing software, the one I have does not seem to pull data
>>> from a flash drive,   Had to put it on the desktop for it to work.    I
>>> seem to have two different programs available, and I am wondering if
>>> they might foul each other in someway.
> multiple burning programs will not interfere with each other, unless
> your running more than one at the same time, they all tend to be front
> ends to the same commandline utilities anyway.
>
>
> I tend to favour using k3b to burn cd/dvd images, technically its a kde
> program but it works under gnome on most systems.
>
> It may be worth checking that 'burnfree' (aka burn proof) is enabled if
> your drive supports it.
>
> In there  Settings ->  Configure K3b
>
> The 'Devices' tab should show your drive, and will list what
> capabilities it has and wether it supports burnfree or not.
>
> The 'Advanced' tab has a tickbox to 'use burnfree'
>
>
> If your drive still spits out coasters even with burnfree on, or of it
> just doesnt support it, then you'll have to limit the maximum speed you
> write at. As it could be the drive or the media you've bought just can't
> do it any faster
>
>
>
>
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