On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: > Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > > >On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > >>Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > >> > >> > ><snip> > > > >Thanks, John. The driver is recognised alright with cdrecord -scanbus > >and I can do a dummy run satisfactorily with a CD-R disk in the drive, > >also cdrecord writes stuff out through the drive quite happily to a > >(Toshiba) CD-RW disk. I forgot to mention that the same CD-R disks can > >be written to (after cdrecord has refused) by the drive in Win'98 > >(bah!). > >
> <snip> > > > OK, that is good, looks like you have a device. > The blank discs write satisfactorily in windblows, so they are not > really the problem. > You say it can do a dummy write with the lazer turned off, but not an > actual write, odd. > Is there a size problem ? Maybe too much data to fit on the disc ? > What are you writing , data or audio ? > > John Data. Sizewise: recently, only small amounts up to and around 1MB, just in order to test whether I could get the thing to work at all. DougB
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