[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| >From: Leigh Orf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| >I just bought an Acer CRW1032A CD ReWriter, internal IDE, which does
| >10x write 4x rewrite and 32x read. When I write a CD using cdrecord,
| >everything appears to go as it should, the only problem is nothing gets
| >written to the CDR or CDRW media! I have tried different speeds and
| >still no go. cdrecord does not report any errors, it just appears as if
| >I've passed the -dummy option. I tried burning in dummy mode on the off
| >chance that it might work but no go. Visual inspection of the CDR/RW
| >verifies that the laser is not burning into the cd.
|
| >Is there some way to determine if the drive has a bad write laser? This
| >is a newer drive and I don't think it's officially supported yet, but I
| >don't have a Windows box to easily plug it into (although I may try that
| >if I can't determine if it's broken under Linux). The drive does read
| >data cds fine, and shows up as
|
| > 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 10X4X32 ' '7.EZ' Removable CD-ROM
|
| >when I do cdrecord -scanbus.
|
| >I am using kernel 2.2.17 and cdrecord 1.9.
|
| Your drive is most likely broken.
|
| Try other media to make sure that it is not caused by the
| fact the the drive does not like to write to your actual media.
|
| J�rg
J�rg,
Yup, the drive was broken. A friend verified it on his windows machine.
I am happy, this means that it will work fine under Linux when I
replace it :)
Thanks,
Leigh
http://orf.cx
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