Dear Charlie, Thought I would let you know that the problem is solved!!! Nothing very technical simply the CD-RW in the writer did not function. It was a Memorex High speed 8X 12X, nor would it work with WinXP/Nero. Other CD-Rs work well. It appears that a 4X speed writer will not work on a higher speed disc.
Anyway, thank you for guiding me to the final destination. Your a 'STAR'. Best wishes, Malcolm. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 17:55, Charlie wrote: > On Saturday 02 November 2002 08:49 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > > Dear Charlie, > Hello Malcolm; (interspersed) > > > > It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I > > have copied the results as follows:- > > > > [root@localhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject > > /home/malcolm/mtdir-25oct02.raw > > That capital V is incorrect, it should be -v for "verbose." Also 'speed=0' > isn't going to do a thing you want. You'll have to change that to a value of > 1,2,3 or4 to fit the capabilities of the Mitsumi. It actually won't burn > anything at zero ya know. As far as writing a raw file from a mount directory > goes I've never tried it. RAW is supposed to be one of the supported formats > but I'll have to find what flags to use with it. I'll get back to you on > that. > > Have you neglected your daily caffeine intake? "speed=0"??? ;) > > > Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg > > Schilling > > scsidev: '0,3,0' > > scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 > > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg3'. Cannot open > > SCSI driver. > > Because you gave it conflicting commands. > > > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you > > are root. > > [root@localhost malcolm]# cdrecord -scanbus > > Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg > > Schilling > > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open > > SCSI driver. > > Conflict because it's still trying to execute the previous command maybe? > > > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you > > are root. > > [root@localhost malcolm]# ##What on earth is /dev/pg3, I have no > > /dev/pg files! > > Interesting question here. I'm on a research run looking for a reason for > this. I'll let you know when I find something unless one of the people that > _know_ what the devil they're about are willing to throw us a bone? It would > help (probably) to check /etc/fstab to see whether it's recognized as a valid > drive. Also check /etc/mtab (mount table) and /etc/lilo.conf. Maybe post > those here? If you have posted them in the past sorry, I'll have to read > through the whole thread again to be sure I don't duplicate previous efforts. > > It almost seems the scsi emulation module (or kernel driver, I can never > remember which it is) isn't loading, or the cd-rw can't be mounted any > longer; maybe because of of the conflicting command you used. If that's the > case a reboot may take care of it. Or is it just displaying all of this > 'cause you told it to burn at zero burn speed? If so it may be that simply > logging out and back in may do it. Honest Malcolm, I ain't givin' you a hard > time about that speed=0 thing! > > Much. :-) > > > > Before I reinstall Mandrake 9.0 to get back where I was, I am wondering > > if my file system which is ext3 may make a difference. Is that your > > system? > > I have /boot, and /root mounted ext3 but the rest of my drives and partitions > are XFS. Shouldn't make a difference since ext3 is mostly journalling and a > few other goodies tacked onto ext2 (linux native) anyway. I don't think it > would make a difference anyway. > > > > I am grateful for your help, this is driving me crazy and pleased to > > recompense you for your trouble; after all I would have to pay with > > MandrakeExpert and this I will do for you. Please let me know your > > postal address. > > We can correspond here or via off list e-mail or by snail mail all you like > and thank you, but recompense isn't being sought, nor would it be accepted in > any event Malcom. I am not an expert at anything more technical than twisting > words into funny patterns; and refuse to recognise any such characterization > of myself. If I have ever helped anyone my only request would be that the > beneficiary pass it on in the same spirit it's offered. Free; and happily so. > Free advice is worth what you pay for it most times. <grin> > > > > The file:/usr/doc/cdrdao-1.1.6/README was not installed on my system. > > Probably 'cause you don't have cdrdao installed. My bad, sorry. > > <snip> > > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada > Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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