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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