Freeze while CD burning on RH 8.0 (2.4.20-18.8)

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Susan Macchia wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Net Llama wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Susan Macchia wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have been keeping my RH 8.0 system up to date using the RHN services.  I
> > > recently upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20-18.8, but when I try and burn a cd
> under
> > > that kernel, the system locks up - I mean freeze, no rsh, telnet, nada.
> > > /var/log/messages tells me nothing.
> >
> > What command are you using to burn cds?
>
> I use gcombust (version 0.1.57).  cdrecord is version 1.10-14
>
> It happens at different points in the burn process (I am using re-writable cds
> for backup); sometimes when doing a fast blank, sometimes the blank works fine
> and it happens during the actual burn.  Tried different CD-RW with same result.
>
> I didn't really pay attention to which commands gcombust was executing (prolly
> should've...).

I'd suggest doing it from the command line to remove alot of variables.
You can blank a CDRW like this:
cdrecord -v blank=fast

You can burn an ISO to a CD like this:
cdrecord -v f00.iso


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