I see that your Dell Inspiron 7500 either has a CD-ROM/Floppy Drive or DVD-ROM/Floppy Dive unit in the Media Bay. Assuming that I understand correctly: 1) your CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) drive is able to read commercially produced CDs flawlessly; 2) you aren't specifically speaking of being able to boot off those CD-Rs when you say "not readable"; 3) and you can read CD-Rs produced on other than your Linux PC --- It sounds like the problem lies exclusively in your Dell.
Older CD-ROMs could not read the surfaces of CD-Rs due to the lighter burn temp and impressions made with a CD-R drive. That was pre-12X days. I have a 24X Toshiba that will sit there and churn for the better part of a minute trying to make sense of a CD-R, then quit. It would be an unexpected surprise for a modern laptop to have a CD-ROM drive (I won't even entertain a DVD-ROM drive incapable of seeing a CD-R!) that was blind in this area. I think the key to understanding what's happening is in having you better define what it is that your Dell's ROM drive *can* and *cannot do*. If you can say that you have tried burns off of other PCs (owned or unowned), and commercial CDs, too, and they all work in your Dell, PLUS...the burns off your Linux box are readable in other PCs (non-Linux ones, too)...as a professional troubleshooter, I would start to look at your Dell as the sole source of the problem. If your laptop is still under warranty, call Dell and ask them if there is a known issue with the particular combo drive that you have on your computer. Check their support site (http://support.dell.com/), login with your account (if you have one), create one, or use your computers Service Tag number to get to the info specific to your machine. Then look in the downloads area for patches or driver upgrades. You could have an earlier production combo unit with a sensitivity to CD-Rs produced by certain CD-RWs, or its plain buggy and needs a TLC patch. :-) Please remember that all this I have said here is under the assumption that you are only speaking about the inability to *read* any CDs on your Dell laptop that were burned exclusively on your Linux box. Good Luck, Paul. I hope you find your answer... T Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > I have attempted to burn the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs several times. In all > occasions, the CD was not readable on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. The > CD did, however, work on my desktop. When I put the CD in the laptop > tray, it seeks for approximately 15 seconds before giving up. I have > tried different CD media. I have tried using Gtoaster and cdrecord. I > have tried changing the writing speed. I have tried using the "-dao" > option in cdrecord. But nothing seems to make these CDs readable on my > laptop. Please help. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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