On 10 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 06 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I had to burn 20 CDs. All but one of the first 18 went off OK; I put the > > single failure down to a faulty disk. But after I'd done 18 they all > > started failing. I tried a disk from a different source but the same > > thing happened. I then tried to burn disks in a different computer > > (running the same version of Debian) and the same failure occurred. > > > [snip] > > I eventually discovered that my /etc/defaults/cdrecord file was > misconfigured in some way. This had not mattered previously but perhaps > some recent upgrade showed up the problem. I'm not actually quite clear > what was wrong but I rewrote the file in the light of the man page and > the problem disappeared. I now have things working on the desktop; the > laptop requires more work to sort it out.
Postscript to the above: in the end it wasn't the /etc/defaults/cdrecord that was the problem: it was simply a matter of bad disks! Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
