I've got a refurbished Yamaha CDRW 4x4x16 at home that
makes beautiful CDs most of the time. 'Course I don't use
MKISOFS, as what I'm burning is already in an ISO format
(so far.) I've made numerous CDs of three different
distributions of Linux, and with 4 exceptions all have
verified OK on my system. One exception was due to my error
in setting up the options in XCDRoast, and the rest appear
to be media errors as best I can tell.
I'm using Mandrake 6.0 with an Advansys Ultra SCSI (PCI)
controller.
Are you folks that are having problems using ATAPI CDR/RW
drives? I know they're SUPPOSED to work....
John
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Mike Hahn wrote:
> >
> > > All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the
> > > last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is?
>
> Well, lemme see.
>
> I burned CDs with 6.0
>
> I burned CDs with 6.1
>
> I burned CDs with 7.0
>
> I have been trying to figure how I might reproduce the errors
> he's having.
>
> I can't seem to accomplish it.
>
> I call cdrecord from my own python script to break a big disk
> into CD-Rs without compression, because I also use it for
> backup. Mine burned just fine at 1x, 2x, and 4x.
>
> Now using windows several months ago on the same rig, I had
> difficulties with 4x recording which don't seem to carry over to
> linux.
>
> Now One computer here would not install 7.0--it was hanging at
> the same point in copying every time. I substituted a CD Drive I
> knew was good and the error vanished. I know it isn't what
> anyone likes to hear, but at this point I would suspect hardware.
>
> Civileme
