why is my cdrom drive tray closing so fast?

[joseph2020]

I thought I'd be smart and backup my Ubuntu install CD.

I have a single CDROM drive. When the CD copy is done, the tray automatically comes out, and immediately closes again. There's no time to change to the blank CD. I have tried using both gnomebaker and brassero...same results. Is there a setting I can change somewhere in Linux to change the speed of tray timing?

How do I make it pause 10 seconds before the tray closing?

Thanks in advance

[Rubberman]

I usually make an iso image of the disc first, then I load the blank and burn the iso. I also keep a copy of the iso on my system for future uses since I can mount it and access its contents without the actual CD in the drive.

[joseph2020]

Rubberman, thank you for your reply. I saw the ISO option, but was trying to save a step. As a last resort I will go the ISO route. But do you have any idea why the tray closing so fast? thanks again.

[oz]

But do you have any idea why the tray closing so fast? thanks again.

Here's a bug report that looks something like what you describe, but not sure that it's related to the behavior that you are experiencing:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/294959

[Rubberman]

Most of the GUI CD/DVD recording/copy tools use command-line applications like cdrecord and mkisofs/growisofs for copy/burn operations. Sometimes they have option settings that will let you determine how to deal with media changes. I haven't used the Ubuntu tools - I use K3b on CentOS w/ KDE for most of my purposes. I do prefer the copy-to-iso-then-burn-iso method myself as I find I make fewer coffee coasters that way.

[joseph2020]

Rubberman, Thanks again for your help. I probably will go the ISO route because of your advice.

[Hal343]

I use K3b on Gnome and do it the same way as Rubberman.