I found a link for the repair for this problem on Mandrakes site, however
the instructional page link is broken....beat my head against a brick wall
for a month find the fix only to have a broken link....I am upset!
If you go to the download link on the top of the main page (home) and hit
download then the first demo link it comes up with exactly the same message
I have been getting...tells you the fix is on following pages, and then the
dreaded 404 error!
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jim"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Mark/Jim....that's not true, a CD-RW can function as a music
CD (if it's properly hooked up to the sound card's input
connector), and it can also read data CD's made commercially
or made on other CD-R's and CD-RW's. There have been specific
incompatibilities concerning certain media's reflectivity and
a few incompatibilities related to certain models and brands
(this was with products released quite early in the CD-RW
category).
Alan
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket.
> > 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
> > >
> > >
>
> If it's a RE-writable CDROM then you won't be able to read normal data
> CD's in it. That's my understanding. Only CD's that have been written
> using that peice of hardware can be read in it.
>
> regular data CD's format = ISO9660
>
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux box...
> My Linux Box ROCKS!
