[CentOS] CD burning issues & questions

Sat Jan 3 22:22:52 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote:
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>> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I
>> cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into
>> that last night. Went to M$ Windows and I was able to erase the 2
>> CD-RW media, without any problem. Then, I tried to burn the files
>> (which are M$ Windows files) to the CD-RW media. No go and I wasted
>> about 20-30 minutes, while it was in a loop or stalled on M$ Windows.
>> Then, I went back to CentOS and I was able to burn the files, without
>> any problems.   :-)    Not sure what is causing the issues. Nothing
>> grave, such as borked your box recently.
>>
> I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and eventually
> thought it must be impossible.  Then a couple of days ago I desperately needed
> a CD, and I'd run out of blanks.  I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where
> I hadn't used k3b before.  K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle
> of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b
> could do it on the fly.  I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso.
> It asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use it.  I got a clean, verified
> burn, and used the CD-RW to do an install!
>
Anne: Cool. Thanks. I will try that, the next time I use a CD-RW that
has previously been used. I tried "Tools > Erase CD-RW" and it got
stuck. Maybe it will just work, if I let it erase the media
automatically, without me asking.... Lanny