Mark/Jim....that's not true, a CD-RW can function as a music
CD (if it's properly hooked up to the sound card's input
connector), and it can also read data CD's made commercially
or made on other CD-R's and CD-RW's. There have been specific
incompatibilities concerning certain media's reflectivity and
a few incompatibilities related to certain models and brands
(this was with products released quite early in the CD-RW
category).
Alan
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> >
> > Well Mark you are close there....but the drive performs perfectly in the
> > OTHER OS...reads, writes....just like it was designed to do....but the only
> > function it has in Linux is music...plays fine...the problem is when I put
> > in any of the data cd's I got when I purchased the MD 7.0 package
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "~-=Mark=-~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
> >
> > Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW
> > because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a
> > problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer.
> >
> > The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the
> > hardware is concerned it's still busy and isn't going to allow and
> > ejection when it's still performing a task. You've asked it to access and
> > read files from a dir ... even though it can't it's trying and therefore
> > won't process the eject command.
> >
> > Hope this is some help.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket.
> > Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants
> > don't have any pockets in them.
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jim wrote:
> >
> > > I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it
> > > seems worse
> > >
> > > I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it
> > > just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light
> > > comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents
> > of
> > > the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayed....now the weird....I can't
> > > eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the
> > > machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I
> > > completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it
> > > back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me with all this weirdness?
> > >
> > > I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali
> > > Aladdin V AGPset rev 5.
> > >
> > > I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't
> > > gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives
> > > here?
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
>
> If it's a RE-writable CDROM then you won't be able to read normal data
> CD's in it. That's my understanding. Only CD's that have been written
> using that peice of hardware can be read in it.
>
> regular data CD's format = ISO9660
>
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux box...
> My Linux Box ROCKS!
