No good CD-Rom copy software

[Michael M. Moore]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 09:16 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> 	Yes things have changed. Here is how it is on Hardy:
> 
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/wodim
> - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 359116 2008-02-29 23:22 /usr/bin/wodim
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ locate cdrecord
> /usr/bin/cdrecord
> /usr/lib/brasero/plugins/libbrasero-cdrecord.la
> /usr/lib/brasero/plugins/libbrasero-cdrecord.so
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/cdrecord
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-06-14 11:17 /usr/bin/cdrecord -> wodim
> karl at karl-hardy:~$
> 
> 	It is clear that cdrecord calls wodim. Now wodim is newer than cdrecord
> but I think it works not as good!

It doesn't?  I never had any problem with it, but I didn't use Hardy.
wodim has been in Debian for a long time (since before Etch, I think)
and it always just worked.

You tried burning from the command line with wodim, and got a bad disc?
Or the software you used (Brasero or whatever) that called wodim didn't
work right?

I would think, if say, Brasero, wasn't working with wodim properly, that
it isn't necessarily a problem with wodim, but could be a problem with
Brasero.  The way to find out would be to use wodim by itself, on the
command-line, and see if you still have problems.

There is a pretty tortured and unpleasant history behind why cdrecord
was replaced by wodim.  Developer wars.  I'm not taking sides, only
noting the issue.

-- 
Michael M.