Rob,
If you solve your CDRW problem, please post it to the list. I have a
similar problem with my yamaha 6416, that I have not taken the time to
solve. The drive worked for a couple years but has now stopped reading
its own CDR's. Strange, but CDRW's come out fine. Even weirder, if
I burn a CDR, my machine won't mount it, but my Windows machine at work
can read the directory and I have spot checked some of the files.
I wonder if somehow it is a reading problem, rather than a writing
problem.
It is my understanding, that burning a CD without error means nothing.
If you read Schilly's site for cdrecord, you will find his rant about
the inadequate SCSI interface that disallows a complete set of return
feedback codes. Supposedly, this has been mostly fixed for kernel 2.4.
I don't know how this affects SCSI over IDE.
Still, it may be some kind of hardware problem. At work they installed
HP CD writers on 6 Windows machines in our department. After a year or
so, three of them now fail to read, but still write OK. Our PC expert
was unable to figure it out, so he just installed a CD-ROM as a second
CD drive on my machine to read from. (Incidentally, when my machine at
work tries to read its own CD, it locks up the machine, so that it has
to be rebooted ;)
I haven't tried this "solution" at home.
Has anyone else encountered similar problems?
---- Carl
