On Sunday 24 July 2005 21:46, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 22:22 +0300, Romeo Ninov wrote: > > IMHO k3b is the best, don't search for alternative :-) > K3b uses logical block records (and rewrites for MO media like CD-R, > DVD-RW, DVD+RW, etc...). While this is easiest, it's not always the > most compatible. I.e., it's typically more than adequate for data, if > that's what you want it for. But if you're looking for the utmost > player compatibility, you don't want to use logical block writes. Ok, again, stop. Does this answer the original poster's question? He wants to write CD's; hearing the excess information about DVD's doesn't help him. Why is it so hard to simply 'help' the original poster? Last I checked, k3b for writing CD's uses CDRecord. Since the OP's question was about CD's and not DVD's, the whole packet of information about DVD's was extraneous and superfluous. I use K3B on a WhiteBox 3 machine; since I do use it to write data DVD's I had to build a later growisofs for it, but for the CD recording side I have had zero problems in over 1,000 CD's burnt, both audio and data. As the drive I have doesn't support DAO recording, I have it set to do TAO, which seems to work just fine with every CD player I've tried the disc's in. So, to answer the original question, K3B (of a recent version) works fine on a RHEL3-derived system for burning audio CD's, assuming you have a good burner. On my particular system I also have to make sure I run k3b as root; otherwise the drive doesn't show up (since it is not the only CD drive in the system, and since it uses ide-scsi (remember, CentOS3/WhiteBox 3/RHEL3 are 2.4 kernel) the system gets a little confused). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu