On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:35, you wrote: > >I've had a similar problem after burning a cd when using the -eject switch > >to cdrecord. Now and than the drive ejects and cdrecord locks up. I can > >kill cdrecord with ^C, but the CD writer is useless until I reboot --- it > >won't even bring the drive door in (with the manual eject), and appears > >the drive looses all power. The machine reboots without any extra errors. > > Could this in any way be related to my box freezing up completely, with > just the keyboard LED's flashing, after writing a CD? Happens 50% of the > time. Am using X_CD_Roast 0.98
I had a box of dud CD-Rs a while ago and 8 of them all caused kenel panics. Only way to get going again was to cold re-boot. That's using cdrecord from the command line. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
