On 12/07/2011 06:48 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
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> When cutting a CD, K3B does not wait long enough for the door
> to open and close.  But, it gets through it.  But on
> a DVD, it crashes when the DVD door closes for the verify.
>
> k3b does the open and close thing to flush something inside the
> writer.  This is to support bad firmware in bad drives (Plextor).
> Mine is a Optiarc, so it is a good tip to just turn the feature off.
> Thank you!
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welcome.

i had a plextor drive. a real pain. only good thing about it is that it
stopped writing about 6 months after i bought it. when i bought it, i was
not aware of problems and why it had to open tray, just that k3b would
hang if i did not open tray.

it was a low write speed, so when i bought a new drive, i got a faster one,
turned off tray open, and all was ok.

it was interesting to see that some hung with out opening, while others
hung up from opening.


> Useless as long as k3b's version for EL6 is wildly out of date.
> You just get told to upgrade.  (I asked RPM Forge if they would
> generate up to date RPMs.)
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some folks have no concept of what can be involved with updating. ;)

imbw, but i believe rpm's are built by k3b group from kde. may have
better luck going to kde.


> Have you use Brasero?
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no. what features does it have over k3b?

as mentioned, in early days of k3b, i had minor problems that worked out
with later v/r and better burners. so i have not had need/reason to try
a different front end.

only other burner front end i have ever used is what was in mandrake. it
had a couple of nice features, but even with it, i mostly used k3b when
it was released because it was easier and quicker to use for burning .iso
files and cpio backup files.

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peace out.

tc.hago,

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