[NTLUG:Discuss] Using 2 CD-ROM's with X-CD-Roast

[J. Reeves Hall]

Seth Daniel wrote:

> > I ditched X-CD-Roast in favor of cdrecord, and it works great now :)
> >
> > -Reeves
>
> Isn't X-CD-Roast a frontend to cdrecord?  I ask because I'm
> going to be getting a cd burner and I'd like to have the
> appropriate tools setup when I do get it.

Supposedly, yes. It actually contains mkisofs and cdrecord. I'm not sure
what the problem is; perhaps xcdroast does probing of some kind that the
SCSI driver doesn't like...

I suggest getting cdrecord and mkisofs, the latest versions, stand-alone.
The command line options looks horrific but they're actually insanely
simple (unless you're doing crazy stuff like multisession). If xcdroast
works, great, it's a nice program. But don't count on it.

It worked fine until I added this ATAPI drive. Oh well, cdrecord works
very nicely, and does disk-to-disk dubbing correctly. It's never failed
and uses less than 10% of the two CPU's even while copying at 4x.
(Windows and the write2cd package crashes at random points during the
burn; Microsoft owes me $2.17 for coasters.)

Isn't this great? Philips' "native" software (CeQuadrat's write2cd) is
far less reliable than an open source package written by volunteers with
no assistance from Philips...

-Reeves