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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> not sure as windows 2000 won't even use my cd burner but I have burned
> at least 4 cd's that I can remember using mandrake 7.0 to burn them and
> they all worked great. With these few problems
> 1) they won't work with the kenwood true speed cdroms
The Kenwood 42X will not read CD-R's or CD-RW's
The 52X will not read CD-RW's, and neither one willread multi-session
CD's
The 72X is supposed to read these formats
> 2) they also won't work on at least some older cdroms. Like for
instance
> an old 6x I had laying around but it also wasn't able to
view the cdrom from dos.
Many older CD-Roms cannot read any of the recordable CD formats or
multi-session CD's
>
>
> Deven Phillips wrote:
> >
> > To anyone interested,
> >
> > I have recently discovered the answer to a problem I have seen on
> > this list wuite a bit. People have been having problems with the Mandrake
> > 7.0 ISO not booting properly, and through experimentation I have
> > discovered a possible answer. I assembled a collection of various
> > computers and tried to install from an ISO that a friend had downloaded
> > and burned that didn't work for him. Consistently, the CR-ROM install
> > failed during the reading of the CD-ROM boot image (i.e. after the splash
> > screen, and the kernel demsg). I then took a CD that I had and
> > installed. It consistently worked on all 7 machines. I looked for a common
> > denominator, and I found that my friend had burned his ISO from a windows
> > machine, and I had burned mine under Linux (cdrecord). I then realized
> > that this may be the problem. I brought in a few more friends with varying
> > hardware and OSs, and every CD burned from windows (no metter where the
> > ISO was d/l'd from) froze at the same point, every linux burned CD worked
> > without a hitch. Please verify and post any further information.
> >
> > Deven Phillips,
> > Cytronix Computer Services, Inc.
