On Fri Nov 09, 2001 at 07:41:24PM -0700, Praedor wrote: > 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.
What does cdrecord --scanbus tell you? > 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. Well, I can honestly say this isn't how Linux handles CDRWs... I've been using them for at least 2 years now under Linux, ranging from my first Yamaha SCSI burner to my more recent IDE Ricoh relatively-generic CDRW. Works like a champ all the time. I've maybe mis-burned a dozen CDs under Linux in 2 years and probably close to 2-3 dozen under Windows. > 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. Does the CDRW work as a normal CD-ROM fine? Ie. you can mount/umount normal CDs and such under it? hde sounds to me like an ATA100 controller.. do you have it on one? Can you perhaps put it on the motherboard's ATA33/66 controllers? FYI, I have a promise ATA100 card here with four drives (all ATA100) on them, and my CD-RW is hda, and the only device on that bus. It is also ATA100, but perhaps your difficult is in having the CD-RW slaved to an ATA100 drive? Not much of a bone, but possibly worth investigating. Of course, I could be *way* off here... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-31.1mdk uptime: 11 days 6 hours 8 minutes.
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