I would look at the ide-scsi emulation that is used for your device. There was a lot of conversation about that problem during the early days of 7.1 and I did not pay a lot of attention to the conversations since I had a scsi drive and was immune to all of those problems. Should find it in the mandrake archives somewhere on the website. tom berkley Buchan Milne wrote: > Hi Tom, > > You neglected to say if you tested on 7.2 also, but I assume you > did.... > > Your test isn't really going to be of much value (I think) because you > are using a scsi writer. All the problems so far have been with ide. > > I am wondering if I am getting a variation of the problem mentioned on > the mandrakeforum.com, which has something to do with the new ide code > on i586. > > I don't have the time to compile a new kernel today, but I suspect that > either disabling ata100 or compiling for i486 should make a difference. > > The article refers escecially to the Western Digital drives, and the > drive on which my images reside is a WD AC32100H. > > I had no problems under redhat 6.2, where I was actually running the > cdrecord and mkisofs packages from Mandrake 7.2 Thus, the only > difference can be the kernel .... > > Maybe mandrakesoft should make a kernel available for people who are > having problems with this kind of thing, since I think it will be very > common. Of course it should also be put on a new bootdisk .... > > Buchan > > Tom Berkley wrote: > > > > Having read of a few people having cdrecord problems, it was time for me > > to burn one and see for myself: > > cdrecord -v dev=4,0 speed=8 -eject msccdrom.iso > > > > no problem. took just under 10 minutes. this is a plextor 8X burner on > > an adaptec 2930U2 (AIC 7850) narrow fast scsi controller. no problem > > with mandrake 7.1, or redhat 6.2 either. I'll do one on rh7 next time. > > > > so it does work just fine, and I will continue to be wary about ide cd > > burners with linux. > > > > tom berkley > > > > Roger Sherman 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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