Re: cdrecord hangs system

2003-01-15 Thread Len Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:57:54AM -0800, Casey Scott wrote: Any idea why that happens? It used to work w/o any trouble. The only thing that changed is that the drive that held the data being burned was IDE, and now all the drives are scsi. Everything seems fine on the bus. No errors

Re: cdrecord hangs system

2003-01-15 Thread Casey Scott
Is it possible that the drive is just going bad? As I understand scsi, copying from 1 scsi device to another should not make the system flinch. Most IO is done on the card. What would be a good inidicator of a drive going out? I don't have another scsi cdrw drive to swap with. On Mon, Jan

Re: cdrecord hangs system

2003-01-15 Thread Casey Scott
Well... it seems to be fixed Out of sheer desperation, I took the drive out and cleaned the laser with Qtip and Windex. Now the thing runs awesome again. I don't know if the cleaning fixed it coincidently, or if the lense was just dirty. Either way, its working great. Thanks for everyones