[seul-edu] problems writing CDs

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Hello,
    I'm trying to set up a CD burner so I can duplicate stuff to use at
school. (Available software is either x-cd-roast or gnome toaster under
RedHat 7.2.) I just got hold of a SAF CD-R 2004 burner and a Compaq
CR-503BCQ reader. Both drives read just fine.

When I try to copy a CD on gnome toaster I get the following error message:

Operation starts.
cdrecord: SAO writing not available or not implemented for this drive.
cdrecord: cannot send CUE sheet.
child exited unexpectedly.
CD recording process finished.

On X-CD-roast I get a message that "Your CD-writer did not accept the CUE
sheet needed for DAO writing."

    However, this drive explicitly _does_ support DAO. As I write this I'm
retrying X-CD-roast with TAO and it seems to be working, but isn't there a
disadvantage with TAO as opposed to DAO?
    I know what TAO and DAO are, but what are SAO and CUE sheets? Also, I'm
using single speed because I haven't been able to find the read/write speed
settings to use for the SAF. They're not on the SAF tech support site. Does
anybody have these specs, as well as any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com