Well Mark you are close there....but the drive performs perfectly in the
OTHER OS...reads, writes....just like it was designed to do....but the only
function it has in Linux is music...plays fine...the problem is when I put
in any of the data cd's I got when I purchased the MD 7.0 package
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "~-=Mark=-~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW
because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a
problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer.
The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the
hardware is concerned it's still busy and isn't going to allow and
ejection when it's still performing a task. You've asked it to access and
read files from a dir ... even though it can't it's trying and therefore
won't process the eject command.
Hope this is some help.
Mark
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Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants
don't have any pockets in them.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jim wrote:
> I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it
> seems worse
>
> I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it
> just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light
> comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents
of
> the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayed....now the weird....I can't
> eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the
> machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I
> completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it
> back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again.
>
> Can anyone help me with all this weirdness?
>
> I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali
> Aladdin V AGPset rev 5.
>
> I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't
> gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives
> here?
>
> Jim
>
>
