[Bug 881888] Re: unable to burn more than one disc without a reboot

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This may be related. On burning a second disc, I encountered a situation
where XFBurn would be determining the disc speed. I could hear the DVD-
RW drive hunting back and forth for several minutes like it could never
find the start of the disc. I clicked the Stop button which quite often
doesn't stop. Presumably XFBurn is waiting on disc drive status before
doing anything including aborting.

 I also had Thunar open at the same time. Closing Thunar ended the
hunting and Thunar proceeded to the abort. Unfortunately, XFBurn
apparently wrote to the disc and ruined it. Now there is a small
percentage of a chance, the disc media had a flaw that made Thunar think
it was a valid burned disc and was auto mounted. Causing Thunar and
XFBurn to fight over who had control.

On other occasions, I have had Thunar and/or XFBurn crash at the end of
the burn. Or XFBurn reporting that there was an error in burning the
disc. When in fact the disc reads completely fine. Thus, a false error.
Which I suspect results from Thunar or the auto mounting process
stealing control of the drive away from XFBurn. After the burn, the disc
is valid media and is attempted to be auto mounted. Seems to be a glitch
between XFBurn switching between writing and reading modes. A matter of
timing.

Also might be related: First off, XFBurn does not detect a blank disc in
a second disc drive. It apparently only checks the first drive. When
selecting the second drive from the drop down list, it reverts to the
first drive model. However, clicking the rescan button does detect the
disc in the second drive.

In some cases, these conditions require a reboot to clean the problems.
Seems also to be dependent on models of drives. Some drives seem to work
better than others. Either the drives aren't complying to standards, or
software is using or relying on features and uniqueness to work.

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  unable to burn more than one disc without a reboot

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