>From: Leigh Orf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I just bought an Acer CRW1032A CD ReWriter, internal IDE, which does
>10x write 4x rewrite and 32x read. When I write a CD using cdrecord,
>everything appears to go as it should, the only problem is nothing gets
>written to the CDR or CDRW media! I have tried different speeds and
>still no go. cdrecord does not report any errors, it just appears as if
>I've passed the -dummy option. I tried burning in dummy mode on the off
>chance that it might work but no go. Visual inspection of the CDR/RW
>verifies that the laser is not burning into the cd.
>Is there some way to determine if the drive has a bad write laser? This
>is a newer drive and I don't think it's officially supported yet, but I
>don't have a Windows box to easily plug it into (although I may try that
>if I can't determine if it's broken under Linux). The drive does read
>data cds fine, and shows up as
> 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 10X4X32 ' '7.EZ' Removable CD-ROM
>when I do cdrecord -scanbus.
>I am using kernel 2.2.17 and cdrecord 1.9.
Your drive is most likely broken.
Try other media to make sure that it is not caused by the
fact the the drive does not like to write to your actual media.
Jörg
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