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LinuxNetMag #1
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Have you already burned a broken CD?
Yes? It seems that you do not work with Linux. Burning CDs and
playing Quake or compiling a kernel is not a dream with a real operating
system!
If you burn CDs with WINDOWS, you will know the problem: deactivate the
ethernet card and kill all tasks and programs that are still running. Do
not move the mouse or the joystick and hope that the screensaver was not
turned on.
With Linux it is all different. During copying CDs you do not
need to reduce your work on the system. Even "CPU hungry" programs or compiling
a new kernel is not a problem. The only way to crash burning is a power
failure.
Before buying a new writer you should first inform yourself about which
models are supported. This information is available at http://www.guug.de:8080/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl.
In any case you should buy a SCSI writer because these models
are supported best. A few ATAPI models are supported also and run under
SCSI emulation.
For good results use the programs cdrecord and mkisofs.
If you do not want to work on a textconsole (shell) you should get Thomas
Niederreiter's Tcl/Tk front-end X-CD-Roast.
This front-end offers a comfortable frontend for the two programs.
With X-CD-Roast you are able to arrange your own Data-CDs, copy
Music-CDs
(read and burn) and both together (data and music on one CD).
X-CD-Roast offers the possibility to write CD-RWs but has not
included an erase-button yet. After a warning from the programmer it is
even possible to write more than 74 min on a CD even if the CD just has
74 min free space! You shoud not try this with data CDs just with music
CDs because the CD quality is worse at the border and you could loose your
data. This makes sense if the CD is a little bit longer than 74 minutes.
In the actual version 0.96e X-CD-Roast, which has
its roots in a diploma work, runs stable but the windows are sometimes
sluggish. This dilemma has its reason in the script-language Tcl/Tk and
Tix.
Linux supports the potential to run different programs with different
priorities.
If a program needs more resources other programs with a lower priority
are stopped for a while. You should use this every time if you copy CDs
and run X-CD-Roast with:
>> nice -n -20 xcdroast
This command gives xcdroast the lowest nice level equal to the highest
priority!
There are other programs to burn CDs, too.
Burn-It is a writer
that was specially constructed to run on many other systems. Also this
program is "just" a front-end for mkisofs, cdrecord and cdda2wav.
The surface is written in Java and that is the cause why it runs on all
platforms with Java-runtime and the three programs from above.
The actual stable version is 1.0.6, the developer version has
the number 1.4.0.
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