Thanks Trevor, at least its encouraging to hear someone else has the same kind (mine is an LG too, I thought it said that in my initial post, but I guess I was wrong) and has had some success...it's frustrating as hell, though, cause I have no idea what the problem could be... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Trevor Farrell wrote: > Roger, > > I have a LG cdrw (goldstar) that identifies itself as 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' > '1.05' Removable CD-ROM so I guess its similar to yours. It too produces the > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. > message, but has worked perfectly under Mdk 7.1 for ages. Now that I have > done a clean install to upgrade to 7.2, I too am having troubles. I get > approx a 70% sucess rate, but if I don't eject-after-write the cdrw locks up, > and I have to reboot my system to free it! and I am also getting some other > strange errors that look h/w related. Next time I get one, I'll mail a copy > of the exact message to the list for comment. I wonder if the "ide=autotune" > options are causing some of my grief too. > > Trevor > > On Sunday 17 December 2000 08:15, you wrote: > > > > I've tried several of the CD burning programs that came with 7.2, with no > > success. Can't drag into windows like it says in the directions, when I > > can, hitting whatever button executes the program doesn't work, blah > > blah... > > > > I went to Mandrakes home page, and found a tutorial, which I believe has > > led me to the problem. When I type in cdrecord -scanbus, I get the > > following: > > > > [root@ool-18beefd7 rog]# cdrecord -scanbus > > Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg > > Schilling > > Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 > > Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' > > scsibus0: > > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. > > 0,0,0 0) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM > > 0,1,0 1) * > > 0,2,0 2) * > > 0,3,0 3) * > > 0,4,0 4) * > > 0,5,0 5) * > > 0,6,0 6) * > > 0,7,0 7) * > > > > Ya see that cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD > > capabilities page? Is that the problem? If so, is there a remedy, or will > > my stock with the Compaq CD-RW not work with Linux? Help! The ability to > > burn CD's is the only thing keeping this a dual boot system, and I'll make > > it a pure Linux box if I can get that CD-RW going... > > > > > > peace, > > > > Rog > > > > http://www.slammingrooves.com > > Registered Linux user #190719 > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > >
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