Nero CD/DVD burner equivalent for ubuntu?

[Bry Melvin]

>From: C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net>
>Reply-To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Nero CD/DVD burner equivalent for ubuntu?
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:10:40 -0500
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>On Tuesday 11 April 2006 15:03, Francisco Borges wrote:
> >  On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:46PM -0500, C Hamel wrote:
> > > I've tried K3b (which crashes during verification), NeroLinux (which 
>hung
> > > up on verification) & Graveman (which will not 'start or continue
> > > multisession' & does not verify).  I don't like any of them. <LOL>  
>Brand
> > > new CD-RW media was being used, and I'm on Flight6 w/yesterday's 
>updates.
> > >  I have yet to install today's.
> > >
> > :-D
> >
> > I used to have exact the same problem (i.e. "nothing works!") with *any*
> > GUI burner on this other (debian stable) box I have... so I would use
> > cdrecord manually. THEN there was the 2.6.8 security upgrade... and not
SNIP
e drive in two or three years.
>3. My lastest HP box is just over two years old & has run Linux most of its
>life.  It is now telling me it needs the 2nd replacement drive.  I figure
>once is chance.  Twice is coincidence.  Three times is establishing a
>pattern.
>- --

Interesting:

I can verify that pattern.

Although we have been using linux only the past year in production, we 
migrated from OS/2 not windows. In OS/2 we were sometimes using an OS/2 
specific front end, but still using cdrtools cdrecord and miksofs ports.

specifically with Audio/Data CD Record in the wps (workplace shell) and 
XCDRoast on x11

We generally have about 6 production machines at any one time.
Looking at purchases we have usually had to replace a CD writer at the 9-12 
month point..

Can't compare with windows however because our windows machines have always 
been used for Corel Draw and and Serif Page Plus  and not much else. I 
seldom write CDs in windows.

Our usual failures are motor and media sensing.

Incidently the speed of the recorder has apparently a lot to do with it.

I still have a couple of Sony CRX100E recorders which max out at 4x. I 
bought several of them from a surplus company a while back.
Not only do seem to last forever. (One is going on 3years and just showing 
signs oof being tired)
They never seem to fail a verify either.

One commenton writing errors. We do a LOT of recording .mostly of graphic 
images. I have a rule of ALWAYS recording at no greater than 1/2 the rated 
speed of the recorder or disc whichever is less. this has virtually 
eliminated verification failures.

Bryann