It is also possible that the mkisofs bug (about which I have previously
written -- see test file at http://www.babbleon.org) is causing a
problem with the burned CD, depening on which verison of mkisofs he
used to burn the CD.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| 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
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