On Thursday 05 June 2003 12:32 pm, Mike Liguit wrote:
> What CDR tool are you using? I have a desktop with a LITE-ON IDE CDR-RW
> writer which I'm using as my CDROM drive and to burn CDs as well. I've
> been using this for some time now and has not failed to write me a disc.
> I'm using XCDROAST as my burning tool.
thanks for posting. i use xcdroast too. strangely enough, i was
able to write to three CD-Rs last night, a few hours after my previous
post. strange, because two weeks ago i destroyed 5 CD-Rs while
trying to write :).
i also *destroyed* a CD-RW. at some point, trying to write to the
same CD-RW just destroyed it (Imation) last night. Before that it would
sometimes write and (mostly) not write. now i can't even erase that
CD in xcdroast or Nero in windows :).
just bought a box of CD-RWs. now i've got a LOT more media that
i can work on destroying :).
something else was weird. this is a laptop. i did an apm -s and then
woke it up. when it woke up and i started xcdroast it said that something
had changed in the SCSI setup. then it couldn't find the CD-RW drive.
so i rebooted.
however, just this morning (well, around 3AM) i did the same (apm -s)
and then woke it up when i woke up. and this time it didn't whine
about the SCSI setup and the missing CD-RW drive. ho-hum, might
be time to upgrade to Mandrake 9.1 and increase the complexities
I have to wade through :).
When I take possession of that box of CD-RWs I'll test all of this
again.
> I'm actually thinking that your laptop's drives were detected like my
> desktop (your CDRW drive was identified as /dev/hd*) since that CD-RW
> drive is built on it unless I'm very much mistaken.
yeah, the CD-RW is detected OK. it just wouldn't write for a few weeks.
i got it writing last night though, even though I have no idea what changed
(well, i changed some things, writing in RAW96r mode instead of DAO or
TAO, even though both are supported and both work in Windows). even
on media that had clearly visible surface scratches (but were empty). so
i'll test some more.
today i have other problems. i'm testing gnome and i find that i like it more
than when i tested it last. icewm would be perfect, except i need icons on
the desktop, anyone know how that can be done? in gnome though,
how do i get something like that "Show Desktop" thing on Kde and
windows? and it'd be nice if, on the taskbar, right click on an icon for a
running task would allow me to move the program to another desktop.
as it is, i have to right click on the title bar of the program itself (can't
do it on just the icon on the taskbar) to move it. and how do i make
icons on the desktop activate when i single-click rather than double-click?
thanks for any input. the gnome stuff isn't really important. i'll figure
it out eventually :). the icewm clickable-icons-on-the-desktop thing is
*much* more interesting since if i had one that worked well i'd switch
to icewm completely and just dump kde and gnome :).
thanks again.
tiger
--
Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph
Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78"
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
--
Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph)
Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph
Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph
.
To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug
.
Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to
http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
