How do I turn down the data rate? I am not sure how I am supposed to access the controller's bios. I have set it to 2x write speed (it is a slow CD burner). Are you saying I must try 1x? Also...there is no way other than a reboot to get it back?
On Friday 09 November 2001 07:45 pm, you wrote: > The constant blinking activity is a SCSI command error. > > The SCSI "cpu" doesn't know what to do and has gone offline hence your > errors. > > If you shut down your system and restart, everything will be ok again. > > You might want to TURN DOWN the data rate on the SCSI drive via the > controller's BIOS. > > -JMS > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Praedor > |Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:41 PM > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Subject: Re: [expert] Enough! What is wrong with linux and cdwriters? > | > | > |Here we go again! Just rebooted and tried to burn a CD. It > |failed - even > |though I am using supermount, it failed to mount the CDROM so > |it failed. I > |then tried again AFTER mounting the CD that I wanted to copy. > |No worky. The > |CDRW has a constant, blinking activity light and it is now > |impossible to > |remove the blank without rebooting. Upon trying to burn it > |again after > |mounting the CD with the image I wanted to burn, I get this > |message (in > |gcombust): > | > | Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg > |Schilling > |TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > |Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' > |atapi: 1 > |Device type : Removable CD-ROM > |Version : 0 > |Response Format: 1 > |Vendor_info : 'TEAC ' > |Identifikation : 'CD-W54E ' > |Revision : '1.1A' > |Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM. > |scsidev: '1,0,0' > |scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 > |Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 > |/usr/bin/cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported > |CD/DVD-Recorder > |found on this target. > | > |WRONG! The CDRW did not change magically into a normal CDROM, > |it is STILL a > |CDRW. Is this the way that linux normally handles CD-RWs? I > |have used linux > |for several years now and only recently started in with > |CD-RWs. This is new > |to me but I must say that there is something seriously wrong > |here in the way > |it is treating the drive, and the way it makes it impossible > |to use or open > |the drive after a failure to copy or burn a CD. > | > |I start kpm to see if there is a process associated with the > |drive that might > |explain the neverending blinking activity light but I see > |nothing obvious - > |so I can't kill the damn thing. I am stuck with having to > |reboot yet again. > | > |Someone toss me a bone here please. > | > |On Friday 09 November 2001 06:35 pm, you wrote: > |> This is driving me mad! I have a Teac cd-rw set as the slave to my > |> cdrom master. MOST of the time I am unable to burn CDs, I get > |> messages that the device isn't scsi or it has the wrong driver but > |> once in a while I am able to burn a CD, but then no more. > |> > |> I just burned a CD, for instance, direct CD-to-CDRW. It worked. I > |> then removed the source CD and the newly burned CD and replaced them > |> with the next source CD and blank CD in the burner. I try to burn > |> this and now, magically, I get this error: > |> > |> scsidev: '1,0,0' > |> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 > |> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 > |> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported > |> CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target. > |> > |> Bullcrap! IT IS A BURNER. The damn activity light is flashing and > |> flashing and flashing too and will not stop. I cannot open > | > |the drive > | > |> and remove the blank. The ONLY way I can get the damn drive to give > |> me the blank CD in it and try again to burn onto a new disk is to > |> reboot. Very windoze. > |> > |> Is there some magic that I am unaware of that is needed to > | > |be done on > | > |> my computer to make a CD-RW work all the time rather than once in a > |> blue moon? > |> > |> In lilo, I have: > |> append=" hde=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet" > |> > |> so that scsi emulation is used for the drive and it works once in a > |> while, it seems (and the ide-scsi module is loaded). > |> > |> Someone, before I take a frickin' bat to my CDRW, please > | > |tell me what > | > |> is the trick to getting CDs to burn in a simple burner?! I am about > |> to reboot AGAIN to get the blank out of it. > |> > |> praedor
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