Guest itmpm Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Hi. I seem to be having terrible trouble burning CD-ROM's. I tried X-CDRoast first, and after a long struggle getting the CD-ROM and the CD-RW drives working it started to burn something, but then I ended up with unreadable disks--particularly multi-session ones. After a quick check on the Internet, I switched to Eroaster (does this make me an Eroastrian? :) Even as I type, it is attempting to burn a CD-ROM but it quickly got hung up. The log window says: Starting new track at sector: 0 and then nothing. Meanwhile, the CLI (where I originally ran Eroaster as su (sudo)) spat the following msg at me: ValueError: empty string for float() But I'm not sure if this is serious or not. What's going on? This is very frustrating. MTIA, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Try K3B.... I will never go back to eroaster or xcdroast or other such nonsense.... It can be a bugger to install... (dependencies and stuff) but once you use it, you will never use anything else. Never had a bad disk burned with it. If you still have problems after using K3B... you're trouble is probably driver/hardware... and as such, out of my league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef_kunal Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 try step by step to debug your problem.... First try to burn a cd with cdrecord. also with a new cd then lets see the output. if the same message comes then well you have to post details of your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Usually the first step should be to check that you have the latest upgrades as there were a number of patches involving cdrecord and other low level system components. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 itmpm, Which mandrake distro r u using ? Anyway, xcdroast, eroaster, k3b, and koncd are all GUI interfaces to the actual command-line tool called cdrecord. Make sure u have upgraded ur cdrecord and xcdroast rpms, if there are any upgrades for ur distro. Try to get a proper cd burn with just cdrecord from command-line. Do man cdrecord and go to the EXAMPLES section for help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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