Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-26 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: snip The test files were assembled with mkisofs along the lines you mention. They write out to the CD-RW OK. then write to disc tmp]$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize /tmp.iso (where dev=0,0,0 is whatever it should be

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: snip The test files were assembled with mkisofs along the lines you mention. They write out to the CD-RW OK. then write to disc tmp]$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize /tmp.iso (where

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-25 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
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

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: 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 OK so you are writing data files,

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, Can anyone help? I have been struggling with this problem for ages, RTFM etc. hasn't resolved it for me. MDK9.1. Using cdrecord on the CLI. My Sony CD-writer writes happily to a Toshiba CD-RW, multi-session ,etc. no problem; but I cannot write anything to a CD-R

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip cdrecord: OPC failed I believe it is saying that the drive has failed. That could mean anything. Maybe the drive isn't set up right for cdrecord to work with it. or maybe the driver doesn't work with

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip cdrecord: OPC failed I believe it is saying that the drive has failed. That could mean anything. Maybe the drive isn't set up right for cdrecord to work with it. or maybe

[newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi, Can anyone help? I have been struggling with this problem for ages, RTFM etc. hasn't resolved it for me. MDK9.1. Using cdrecord on the CLI. My Sony CD-writer writes happily to a Toshiba CD-RW, multi-session ,etc. no problem; but I cannot write anything to a CD-R (I've tried Sony Supremas,