On 12/07/2011 02:09 PM, g wrote:
> 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.

Back when I use to sell Plextor, I almost knew their tech support phone
number by heart.  I did know several of the techs by name.

Since I switched to Optiarc, I do not even know it they *have* a tech
support department.  They just work.  Doesn't care what OS you are
using either.  Usually stuff that cheap has all kinds of problems,
but Optiarc is the exception to the rule.

http://www.sony-optiarc.us/

>
> 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.

K3b has a lot of trouble with the door opening and closing before
verify. Then again, this could be fix in the current version.  But,
no RPMs, so ...

>
>
>> Useless as long as k3b's version for EL6 is wildly out of date.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. ;)

I have no idea what so ever you are speaking!  :-)

>
> 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?

Haven't used it yet.  Got it recommended to me over on the Xfce
mailing list.  It *looks* pretty sweet.  Just wondering if you
had any experience with it. I am not married to k3b.  Maybe its
RPM's are more up to date.

>
> 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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