I kept digging and ran across this: In order to learn how X-CD-Roast does call the cdrecord-tools you can start X-CD-Roast with the -d 1 flag, or set in the setup the loglevel to "verbose" and see the logfile.
shawn --- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----this boring bit taken from the xcdroast faq > X-CD-Roast is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the command-line > cdrtools. You can do anything X-CD-Roast does yourself using these > tools - but it's nicer and easier with the frontend. The cdrtools > contain "cdrecord" (does do the hard job supporting all the cdwriters > and is doing the actual writing of CDs), "readcd" (reads data-tracks > of > CDs - its a portable replacement of "dd"), "mkisofs" (masters > CD-/images from given file-trees on the harddisk) and "cdda2wav" > (reads > audio-tracks). Cdrecord, readcd and mkisofs are maintained by Joerg > Schilling, cdda2wav by Heiko Eissfeldt and X-CD-Roast by me, Thomas > Niederreiter. > ---- the point of it is that if xcdroast can do it, then cdrecord can > do it too. Well Steve you are an engineer so I am sure you will get > to > the bottom of it! > > Shawn > > > > Finally got a chance to look at this again. I tried updating my > > kernel > > to see if that would take care of things. I used the > Debian-packaged > > > > 2.4.19 kernel. Yes, I know how to build a kernel, I just don't > like > > extra work. :) > > > > Still no joy on the ripping with the device. I keep getting the > same > > > > errors that was getting before. > > > > On a whim I tried burning a CD with xcdroast. Amazingly, this > > worked > > with both the old (2.4.18) kernel and the new one. My drive I guess > > is > > equipped with some software that reduces the chance of buffer > > underruns. > > I guess that xcdroast knows how to use this, while cdrecord does > not. > > > > I don't know. I'm still very interested in getting this fixed the > > "right way". However, since I can rip with my dvd drive, and the > > cdrw > > now works, the priority of this is now much farther down the list. > > > > Thanks to all who helped out. If you have any more ideas, I'm > > willing > > to listen. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Stephen W. Juranich > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Electrical Engineering > > http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic > > University of Washington > > http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
