Problem making multisession CD (Solved?)

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Problem making multisession CD (Solved?)

#1 Post by cthisbear »

I know we shouldn't cross post but...........

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47248

Anyone saving back to cd on these?

Chris.

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#2 Post by pistoi0 »

Chris,

I have had success with the 4.30, using the OEM burner on my Dell 600m. Even did a successful transfer to a new disk after the first one filled up. I use some inexpensive CD-Rs.

As for 2.14X, i have had no success saving to disk with versions 4, 5 and 7.

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#3 Post by cthisbear »

pistoi0 :

Thanks mate.

I have another brand of cd...number 3...
I will try later.
Might even try it on my wifes comp.

Chris.

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#4 Post by Flash »

I've been running various Puppys from multisession DVDs for years; mostly DVD+RWs. I've not used CDs, but multisession has worked for me on every kind of DVD (except I never tried a DVD-RAM.) I've only burned the iso with Menu -> Multimedia -> Burniso2cd.

I save my settings and installed programs on the multisession DVD; I save other stuff in a USB flash memory that I keep plugged in but only mount when I want to access it.

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#5 Post by cthisbear »

Thanks Flash, I know that you run DVDs.

I did reply, had a nice long post, got interrupted and stuffed it up.
Ah! My brain hurts.
So here we go again.

The comp I'm giving away has an Asus P4 S800-MXSE board.
Usually I go Gigabyte.
I changed the burner.
Tried different pups.
Refuses to burn to Boot cd.....errors
I sometimes wonder if I made the cd a slave instead of master,
and yes it's on a separate cable to the hard drive.

So booted my wifes new comp with 4.3.
Saved back to cd.....and it boots.
I even burnt it with Burn CDCC in Windows....
bloody Heretic I am.
But I had tried different Puppies.

So I try it on mine.
Boots....different network card...Sis900...
but the Asus has the same card.

Reconfigure the net and it decides to save back my session.
Will it boot? Yes...perfect.
But internet won't work.
While i'm cursing I hit the browser button and everything
starts to work one minute later. Strange behavior.

So I decide to boot in the old comp...Asus M/B.
Boots...looking good.
But net refuses to work....until I reconfigure Puppy.
Won't save back on the Asus.

One thing that I noticed.
My comp and the old comp see the cd as DVD.
So I changed my burner...for cd and cd burner.
But I didn't make a default DVD burner.

I won't mark this as solved....only irritating.

Chris.

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#6 Post by alienjeff »

iirc, the multi-session save > CD was a bug way back from the v1.x days which was never completely resolved. I remember having problems with the bkup2cd app in v1.08 years back.
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#7 Post by Flash »

My guess is that the problem goes back to the origin of the multisession idea. Multisession was thought up after the introduction of CDs, so was not part of the original specification for CD drives. When the idea began to catch hold, each drive manufacturer implemented it in a different (and incompatible) way, and so did anyone who wrote programs that used the idea. Eventually multisession was added to the CD specification, but by then the confusion was unanimous. That legacy is probably why multisession is such a trial with CDs.

Multisession was part of the original specification for the DVD, so drive manufacturers and software designers generally got it right from the start.

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#8 Post by cthisbear »

Flash & alienjeff.

Thanks...read all comments.

I may even pop my USB backup DVD writer in.

Boot 4.3 and see how I go.

Chris.

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#9 Post by cthisbear »

" I may even pop my USB backup DVD writer in.
Boot 4.3 and see how I go. "

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Ha! ha!

Yes another DVD-CD writer worked.....LG

Rebooted ...all going nicely until just after copying
sfs-4.30....whatever....

and then get a sync error call.....or similar.

I'm in a bit of a hurry as I'm delivering this comp today.

So part of the fault is the cd writer...

but most is the ASUS>>>>>Freakin' USELESS motherboard.

Regards....Chris.

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