help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

George Hartzell hartzell at alerce.com
Wed Apr 12 16:12:52 UTC 2006


Igor Robul writes:
 > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
 > > When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says
 > > "fixating CD, please wait.." and then reports
 > > 
 > >   burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error
 > > 
 > > Oddly enough, the CD seems to be usable.
 > > 
 > > I can successfully burn the same file if I use cdrecord.
 > On same CD-R disc? :-)

No, on a fresh disk... ;)

 > I sometimes burn many ISO images to CD-Rs "from one box", and on some
 > CD-s I get this error, and on some I dont.

I seem to get it reliably, although I *guess* that it could just be
chance....

I guess my question is: "Is this one of those known things that
everyone just ignores, or do I have an unusual problem?"

g.



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