Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:12 -0800, Tom Berkley wrote:
> > Sean
> >
> > I cannot relate at all to what you are talking about. After 1 year
> > playing with linux and using five different distros, I use Mandrake 7.0
> > (GL edition) on both my laptop and my dual celeron smp box with only one
> > problem that I had to work around. Mandrake 7.0 is a stud muffin linux
> > and if you cannot get it to work, then you probably did not pay any
> > attention to the hardware compatibility issues. Learn more and quit
> > venting your frustrations here. There is a LOT of documentation and you
> > have a lot of reading ahead of you.
>
> Well, Sean might have a point in what he writes (although I'm
> not very pleased of his style). He might, but I found something
> out concerning this "cannot initiate cdrom" problem.
>
> I picked up a PowerPack on Feb 1st at the MandrakeSoft office.
> It's a "real" 7.0 with the bug in DrakX which was fixed in 7.02.
>
> It installed without probs from a generic atapi cdrom drive and
> from a Plextor SCSI cdrom drive as well as from my SCSI Plextor
> CD-writer.
>
> Then I made several copies of the installation cd to try several
> brands of cd-r. Made all copies with the same versions of
> mkisofs and cdrecord.
>
> Outcome was (and here I'm getting back OnTopic) that some copies
> installed w/o probs and some copies gave me that "failed to
> initiate cdrom" error message.
>
> So, could it be that this problem is not only caused by a
> hardware incompatibility but also by using "incompatible" cd-r
> media? If so, then Sean's complaints may really matching his
> style. If not so, then just put this mail into /dev/nul and
> forget it.
>
> Hope this mail gets through to the list. The last four(!) did
> not.
>
> wobo
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I have noticed that most older drives have problems with the silver/dark blue
media particularly, perhaps because there aren't enough lumens out of their
lasers for the absorption of the media.
Civileme
