[wplug] wired resp

mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Sep 15 12:07:22 EDT 2001


On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:23:47AM -0400, harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> 
> Sometime in September squeegy assaulted keyboard and produced...
> 
> |multimedia.  cdrecord on linux sucks for burning cds.  even with a GUI to
> |control it.  I use easycd and copycd.  Now when I am working I want linux
> 
> so if cdrecord sucks for burning cd's on linux what do you consider it to
> be good for on linux? i'm infering from this that you think it sucks in
> general?
>  
> here is my cdrecord equivalent of your two programs.
>  
> easycd:
> mkisofs  -RJ /path/to/cd/contents  | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=6,0 -
>  
> copycd:
> cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=6,0 -isosize /dev/to/copy

Don't forget to nice it to -18 or so as well... give it some priority :)

And cdrdao is pretty neat too, you can setup a layout with a simple
text file.  Or use a GUI to do that.


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