On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 20:19, Harold Martin wrote: > Whenever I try to burn I CD I get the error: > cdrecord: OPC failed. > > Yes, I know OPC means Optical Power Calibration. > But why is it failing? I'm using a brand new CD-RW! > Thanks for your help,
I've been trying to hack a similar problem for months on my RH8 system and finally got the burner to work. (I don't think the burner is anything out of the ordinary: a SONY CD-RW CRX220E1, 52X/24/X/52X). I have little more than a vague understanding as to why this fix works and would be interested in any comments from the more technically knowledgeable: (1) I use cdrecord from the command line or xcdroast (one of its GUIs) (2) "cdrecord -scanbus" lists the device as 0,0,0 (3) /etc/modules.conf includes the lines: options ide-cd ignore=hdc alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias scsi_cd ide-scsi alias scd0 sr_mod (4) Although the burner specs give a write speed of 24X I don't use speeds higher than 8X. (5) I have the FIFO Buffer set to 16MB, the largest value possible in the xcdroast "Setup - CD Settings" menu. (6) I've been using heavily discounted Memorex CD-R's. I hope this helps! Jerry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
