cd burning process cancels every time

mrjwalsh · 2007-06-01 03:13:06

Ok, so I can't actually burn cd's in Linux right now and it's not fun Everytime I start burning a disc it cancels out at anywhere between 10%-40%. Heres what I've done so far.
Added myself to optical and storage group.
Tried with k3b, modified permissions on some of the commands as people say to do, tried again.
Tried with xcdroast, same issue.
Tried with graveman, same issue.

I have all the neccesary packages installed and I'm pretty sure it's not the gui programs fault as I've tried 3 different ones. I can test running cdrecord from the command line but I do not see this as a replacment for a frontend app. I use the command line, but only where it's faster than a front end replacement.

I've found out about enabling dma via hdparm on the disk drive, I'll try that today; if that works do I have to do it everytime I reboot the machine or every time I mount a disc?

Echo · 2007-06-01 04:42:26

Maybe try a different type of CD, brand &/or type (+, - R's)?

mrjwalsh · 2007-06-01 05:42:36

Thanks for the reply. I thought that might be an issue as the cd's I'm using are pretty generic, however I use them to burn stuff in Windows and it works everytime, so I think they should work in Linux.

Acid7711 · 2007-06-01 06:13:34

I recently had an issue with this, and turned out my drive finally just gave up and died after many years of faithful service. May it rip. Buuut, doesn't sound like this is your problem since it burns in windows? I've since switched to an external USB Lite-On burner and all is well again.

mrjwalsh · 2007-06-05 02:01:17

yeh, I don't know whats going on, come to think about it I can't remember the last time I could actually burn a disc with this drive in Linux (it's a Pioneer 109 or maybe 110?) It just pains me to have to go to Windows to burn discs, I don't mind doing it but this is a problem from old school Linux; it shouldn't happen anymore. It doesn't really promote the penguin much.

"Oh yeh, I can do all this cool stuff in Linux that you can't in Windows; but I can't burn cds... :s"

dienadel · 2007-06-05 06:13:14

I use K3b, and noticed time ago, that almost every burn proccess failed, sometimes before starting, others at 30%, 40%... Which i made was selecting TAO mode, and seems to work.

With CD-RW works perfectly, bt, with CR-R i must decrease the speed to 4-6X (max 8x)

bye

Acid7711 · 2007-06-05 08:00:01

dienadel wrote:

I use K3b, and noticed time ago, that almost every burn proccess failed, sometimes before starting, others at 30%, 40%... Which i made was selecting TAO mode, and seems to work.
With CD-RW works perfectly, bt, with CR-R i must decrease the speed to 4-6X (max 8x)
bye

I'll second that actually. I don't remember what mode it was, but before my drive gave out completely, I did have to select another mode that allowed it to actually work maybe 50% of the time. I quickly got fed up with it though, and it wasn't long before it took a fat crap completely.

mrjwalsh · 2007-06-06 02:48:08

hmm thanks for the help, I have tried all the different modes, TAO, SAO, etc but I don't think I have lowered the burning speed, I'll try that, still a bit of a nuisance but fingers crossed.

azwethinkweiz · 2007-06-06 02:55:09

I had this same problem with gnomebaker...and I switched to Brasero and its been great. However it sounds like youre using KDE so I dont know if you want all the gnome libraries and stuff required to run brasero on KDE

outerdark · 2007-06-06 06:37:30

Noticed this problem, too. At home I only can burn 10% to 50%....here at work I can burn the whole CDs, but I can't see a progress or a message whos notifies about the completed burning process.

mrjwalsh · 2007-06-07 02:41:25

Im currently running OpenBox with my preffered apps coming from kde, I don't really want to install lots of new libraries just for cd burning; but like I said I've tried 3 different apps all with the same drop out errors; I don't think this is app related, more likely the libraries/binaries or hardware.

outerdark · 2007-06-11 23:16:51

ok I just ran kernel26-ck and noticed that I could burn again without errors. Same kernel version, but with kernel26 i can't burn.

Perhaps this could help some of you

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