My first test of xfburn was on an old scsi cd burner I acquired. I tried to burn an ISO and it locked up the device. Had to power cycle it to regain control. Turns out it could not handle the CDRW medium I fed it. AFAIK the lock up is more of a kernel issue on Linux but that underlines the importance of checking the medium before burning. In k3b for examble there queries the drives capabilities and issues a cancel/force-it option in this sort of situation That would seem preferable to a total refusal but this probably should at least be trapped in view of the inconvenient consequences.
just seen this on console so it's already detecting caps. Block inappropriate media should be fairly simple. ** Message: device [1] capabilities : CD-R ;)
i'll see to it, but so far xfburn relies on cdrecord for such thing and apparently it shouldn't
We now use libburnia libraries. Closing candidate.
Closing candidate ?? I am not clear whether that means this issue is resolved. Could you explain "candidate"?
(In reply to comment #4) > Closing candidate ?? > > I am not clear whether that means this issue is resolved. Could you explain > "candidate"? > The issue should be solved in newest svn. Would you be so kind to test it, and see if you can still reproduce the problem?
For me, this does not seem to be fixed, xfburn detects correctly what each drive can do (as can be seen in the preferences dialog, second tab) but still offers to burn a composition whith both drives, even the one that can't do it.
Accepting the bug, will be fixed before release. Thank you for testing.
A -force option may be useful like kde does. Maybe a checkbox "enable all drives" or so. Sometimes drive capabilities and media sniffing are unreliable (codes wrongly identified or incorrectly interpreted). If the user knows his media to be burnable (or just wants to try his luck) the program should not be inoperable. Glad to see this close to a fix anyway. Nice work.
This should be fixed in rev 4892. If anyone could check that it works, that'd be great - I don't have a drive which can't burn something ;-). Except BD of course, but then I'm not sure if the drive would even detect that as a disc. Actually, that is a very good question, does a drive that can't write CDRW even detect that a CDRW is inserted?