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using CD-R with linux
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| G. Dubya Shrub 2002-08-30, 3:29 pm |
| I have been trying to make a CD-R disk with little success. My CDRW
drive was installed in a W98 box, and played CDs just fine, but when
you tried to burn a CD, the light on the front just sat there and
blinked. The software (Nero) reports that there is no disk in the drive.
Problem is is that there is a blank disk in the drive (a CD-R disk). I
tried several different disks, then changed brands thinking that maybe
it was a media compatibility problem. No luck. So I replaced the drive
thinking it was bad. Same exact problem. I checked the newsgroups and
saw that W98 had some driver problems with CDRW drives, so I moved the
drive over to my Linux box. I reconfigured the kernel and got linux to
recognize the drive using the atapi-scsi emulation without any trouble.
If you query the drive, it responds like it should. But when you try to
burn a CD with cdrecord, the blinky light - 'no media error' returns
and the drive locks up. So now I've tried 2 different OS's, 2 different
brands of CDRW drives, and 3 types of media. Nothing works.
I have no clue at this point. As near as I can tell this should be
working. Is there some trick or something you need to do to blank CD-R
disks before you use them? Any ideas?
TIA
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| G. Dubya Shrub wrote:
> I have been trying to make a CD-R disk with little success. My CDRW
> drive was installed in a W98 box, and played CDs just fine, but when
> you tried to burn a CD, the light on the front just sat there and
> blinked. The software (Nero) reports that there is no disk in the drive.
> Problem is is that there is a blank disk in the drive (a CD-R disk). I
> tried several different disks, then changed brands thinking that maybe
> it was a media compatibility problem. No luck. So I replaced the drive
> thinking it was bad. Same exact problem. I checked the newsgroups and
> saw that W98 had some driver problems with CDRW drives, so I moved the
> drive over to my Linux box. I reconfigured the kernel and got linux to
> recognize the drive using the atapi-scsi emulation without any trouble.
> If you query the drive, it responds like it should. But when you try to
> burn a CD with cdrecord, the blinky light - 'no media error' returns
> and the drive locks up. So now I've tried 2 different OS's, 2 different
> brands of CDRW drives, and 3 types of media. Nothing works.
>
> I have no clue at this point. As near as I can tell this should be
> working. Is there some trick or something you need to do to blank CD-R
> disks before you use them? Any ideas?
>
> TIA
Sounds more like a new CDRW is in order for you since the drive doesn't
burn even in different OSes. My stepson had same trouble with an Adaptec
CDRW, solved by getting a new drive.
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| G. Dubya Shrub wrote:
> I have been trying to make a CD-R disk with little success. My CDRW
> drive was installed in a W98 box, and played CDs just fine, but when
> you tried to burn a CD, the light on the front just sat there and
> blinked. The software (Nero) reports that there is no disk in the drive.
> Problem is is that there is a blank disk in the drive (a CD-R disk). I
> tried several different disks, then changed brands thinking that maybe
> it was a media compatibility problem. No luck. So I replaced the drive
> thinking it was bad. Same exact problem. I checked the newsgroups and
> saw that W98 had some driver problems with CDRW drives, so I moved the
> drive over to my Linux box. I reconfigured the kernel and got linux to
> recognize the drive using the atapi-scsi emulation without any trouble.
> If you query the drive, it responds like it should. But when you try to
> burn a CD with cdrecord, the blinky light - 'no media error' returns
> and the drive locks up. So now I've tried 2 different OS's, 2 different
> brands of CDRW drives, and 3 types of media. Nothing works.
>
> I have no clue at this point. As near as I can tell this should be
> working. Is there some trick or something you need to do to blank CD-R
> disks before you use them? Any ideas?
>
> TIA
Sounds more like a new CDRW is in order for you since the drive doesn't
burn even in different OSes. My stepson had same trouble with an Adaptec
CDRW, solved by getting a new drive.
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| David Efflandt 2002-08-30, 6:29 pm |
| On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:55:33 GMT, G. Dubya Shrub <whgates@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to make a CD-R disk with little success. My CDRW
> drive was installed in a W98 box, and played CDs just fine, but when
> you tried to burn a CD, the light on the front just sat there and
> blinked. The software (Nero) reports that there is no disk in the drive.
> Problem is is that there is a blank disk in the drive (a CD-R disk). I
> tried several different disks, then changed brands thinking that maybe
> it was a media compatibility problem. No luck. So I replaced the drive
> thinking it was bad. Same exact problem. I checked the newsgroups and
> saw that W98 had some driver problems with CDRW drives, so I moved the
> drive over to my Linux box. I reconfigured the kernel and got linux to
> recognize the drive using the atapi-scsi emulation without any trouble.
> If you query the drive, it responds like it should. But when you try to
> burn a CD with cdrecord, the blinky light - 'no media error' returns
> and the drive locks up. So now I've tried 2 different OS's, 2 different
> brands of CDRW drives, and 3 types of media. Nothing works.
>
> I have no clue at this point. As near as I can tell this should be
> working. Is there some trick or something you need to do to blank CD-R
> disks before you use them? Any ideas?
What brand/model drive? How is it listed in /proc/scsi/scsi? What does
cdrecord say about it?
The fact that even the manufacturer supplied Win drivers have trouble
writing to it makes it sound like a hardware problem. Perhaps a bad cable
or broken or bent pin where the cable attaches to motherboard/drive
controller, or maybe master/slave jumper settings.
There is usually no secret to recording once you have the device working
as scsi and showing up in 'cdrecord -scanbus'. To burn the SuSE liveeval
8.0 cd I simply followed the first example in 'man cdrecord' and did:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 /path_to/some.iso
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| David Efflandt 2002-08-30, 7:29 pm |
| On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:55:33 GMT, G. Dubya Shrub <whgates@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to make a CD-R disk with little success. My CDRW
> drive was installed in a W98 box, and played CDs just fine, but when
> you tried to burn a CD, the light on the front just sat there and
> blinked. The software (Nero) reports that there is no disk in the drive.
> Problem is is that there is a blank disk in the drive (a CD-R disk). I
> tried several different disks, then changed brands thinking that maybe
> it was a media compatibility problem. No luck. So I replaced the drive
> thinking it was bad. Same exact problem. I checked the newsgroups and
> saw that W98 had some driver problems with CDRW drives, so I moved the
> drive over to my Linux box. I reconfigured the kernel and got linux to
> recognize the drive using the atapi-scsi emulation without any trouble.
> If you query the drive, it responds like it should. But when you try to
> burn a CD with cdrecord, the blinky light - 'no media error' returns
> and the drive locks up. So now I've tried 2 different OS's, 2 different
> brands of CDRW drives, and 3 types of media. Nothing works.
>
> I have no clue at this point. As near as I can tell this should be
> working. Is there some trick or something you need to do to blank CD-R
> disks before you use them? Any ideas?
What brand/model drive? How is it listed in /proc/scsi/scsi? What does
cdrecord say about it?
The fact that even the manufacturer supplied Win drivers have trouble
writing to it makes it sound like a hardware problem. Perhaps a bad cable
or broken or bent pin where the cable attaches to motherboard/drive
controller, or maybe master/slave jumper settings.
There is usually no secret to recording once you have the device working
as scsi and showing up in 'cdrecord -scanbus'. To burn the SuSE liveeval
8.0 cd I simply followed the first example in 'man cdrecord' and did:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 /path_to/some.iso
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