[NTLUG:Discuss] K3b question

[Preston Hagar]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
> I have never seen this one before and I would appreciate any clues ...
> Downloaded some iso files (some CD and some DVD) ... all of them check out
> OK for sums (both md5 and sha1)
> But one file (619.0 MB) always fails the write verification ... the others
> pass.
> I even downloaded the suspect file a second time ... it too passed the sums,
> but failed the write verification
>
> One of the files that passes verification is 692.0 MB, so it can't be size
> ... anyway it is a 700 MB CD-R disk
> Thank you
> Regards
> Fred James
>
> Mandriva 2008.0
> K3b 1.0.3 (Using KDE 3.5.7)
>

Let me start by saying I primarily use Ubuntu and haven't ever used
Mandriva, so this may not apply.  Below is a response I wrote to the
Ubuntu mailling list to someone having trouble burning discs.
Depending on the specifics of Mandriva, this may still apply.

k3b, brasero and pretty much all other
GUI burning programs use the same libraries to burn CDs/DVDs.  The
ones that come with Ubuntu by default aren't that great.  Without
going into a lot of detail about it, basically the burning libraries
that are in ubuntu by default were forked from the "original" quite a
while back.  The current libraries in ubuntu are called CDRKit or wodim and
aren't really maintained (last time I looked there hadn't been any
real updates for a couple of years).

The "original" cdrtools is still actively developed and fixed.    The
reason it was pulled from Ubuntu was because it used the CDDL, not the
GPL and linked to some GPL libraries and apparently there might be
legal issues with that.  Here is the cdrtools (probably biased)
opinions on the whole deal:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html

Honestly, I am not a OSS/GPL whatever zealot, I just want my software
to work, so I switched to th ppa above and reinstalled cdrtools.
Since I did, I haven't had a single bad burn.

Anyway, sorry if this doesn't apply to Mandriva, but it might be worth
looking into.