Using the GnomeBaker cd writer program

The program works with cd-r and cd-rw formats. The interface has some issues, particularly with accessing levels within folders. Many times I received crash reports because of too many levels in a folder which the interface could not deal with. Some folders had 7 or 8 levels and that was apparently too much for the program. Often I found myself having to write far less than a full cd worth of data because it kept saying there wasn't enough room. What? Isn't 60 meg of unused space enough? Guess not. So I settled for using 500 mb of cd space then it wrote it ok to my test cd-rw disk.
I always get an error saying that no charset was selected so it defaulted to what it found on my computer (utf8 something?). Weird.

I also set the write speed to 52X and it didn't seem to have issues keeping up with my 52X LG CD Writer.

The interface definitely needs some work fixing issues with charset and levels within folders But it does work.

 

Aspiration

I don't think that the problem with directory limits is a GnomeBaker issue. ISO 9660 filesystems, at Level 1 compatibility have the characteristic that only up to 8 directory levels are allowed (INCLUDING the root directory). As well, names are limited to 8.3 (restriction lifted in Level 2).

Also, only 65,536 files are allowed -- or you will overflow the ISO 9660 path table.

Now, GnomeBaker uses "wodim" as its back-end, which is just a burning application, and mkisofs for mastering.

mkisofs will support "-isolevel 4" to produce ISO 9660:1999 (with directory level restriction lifted), but it is not a given that all *other* OSs will be able to read those CDs. So, it doesn't pass that option, and we have these limits. Especially note that Microsoft Windows reads all files after path table overflow as 0 length! (Linux can still read them).

Note that GnomeBaker 0.6.4-1 allows the deeper directory trees, but the version of GnomeBaker supported by Acer is 0.6.2 (0.6.4-1 is marked "unstable").

Practically speaking -- you have to live with this, sorry. Unless you want to investigate the command line utilities "mkisofs" and "wodim" instead.

 

Thanks for the info. I guess we will have to wait for an update from acer.