[Discuss] K3b issue and cdrecord

[Murray Strome]

Deryk Barker wrote:
> J.Bakshi wrote:
>
>> Hi all :-)
>>
>> today I have got an old LG CD writer from my friend; freely :-)
>> I have installed K3b (Version: 0.11.18-1) and it asked to give 
>> permission as guided by the K3b setup. I refused to change any 
>> permission to the CDR drive (default is 755) though accepted the 
>> permission change of cdrecord and cdrdao. But I can't get the CDR 
>> drive under the setting of K3b. Usually I couldn't run any writting 
>> process, trying the same crashed the K3b.
>>  
>>
> I gave up on k3b, too many annoyance. If you want a GUI burner, I've 
> been using x-cdroast for years now with no problems.
>
>> I am also interested to use *cdrecord* .  So how can I
>> 1] Copy CD to CD
>>  
>>
> Data or audio?
>
>> 2] Copy data to CD
>> with cdrecord. How can I also change the writting speed, buffer size 
>> , buffer over run protection from command line of cdrecord ?
>>  
>>
> cdrecord --help
While I am no expert, I have found that if I start K3b as root (su), it 
usually works just fine without any problems.  I have had troubles 
trying to use it as a user. Also, when burning a CD/DVD you have to be 
careful to NOT include any linked files -- they foul things up.

Murray