On Friday 13 March 2009 09:35:12 pm Dazed_75 wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:17 PM, mz <mz@infomagic.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 13 March 2009 03:22:57 pm Dazed_75 wrote:
> > > I have also had some problems recently with the burner in my HP
> > > laptop.  The most recent was using K3B in ubuntu 8.10 to burn a
> > > DVD .iso  and each attempt would fail with a write error.  Then I
> > > let the default Brasero try and was successful (and on one of the
> > > media which had failed so actually nothing had been written to
> > > it).  I have always preferred to use K3B without problem before. 
> > > No clue what is going on here.
> >
> > While I empathize with your situation, Larry, I believe there is a
> > difference. In my situation, the CD-Rs are reported as being
> > successfully burned. The problem is not discernible until
> > attempting to play in a CD player. Unfortunately, I suspect your
> > problem may be the same as mine. Our drives are on their way to
> > that eternal sleep. ;0)
>
> Actually, I sometimes have that problem with CDs as well.  They seem
> to burn fine but sometimes do not read properly.  My point however,
> was that we both had an unexpected problem with the normally very
> dependable K3B.  But in my case, it seemed to be resolved by using a
> different program to do the burning.  Is it possible that some update
> of K3B has made it less dependable?
>

Possible but doubtful. The last test (after reading your first post), 
was to fire up Windoze to burn a copy. Results were the same.
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