Because it worked fine in MDK 8.0 a few weeks ago, it didn't cross my mind to even check if it should be flashed. However, I took it from 1.07 to 1.09 and wrote an .iso from the prompt, as root! Could mount and 'ls' it afterwards.
Tried a disk-to-disk copy in GCombust and the buffer emptied, but this is labelled as unreliable anyway. Copied the CD to .wav's on the HD, then wrote it at 8 speed - it worked fine. Still not quite sure what wasn't happy with the firmware version - even if cdrecord has put on a revision between 8.0 and 8.1, surely they/he wouldn't take out existing support? Thank you Derek, and thank you Chris for all your help. Richard Derek Jennings, Tuesday 29 January 2002 11:20: > If you look at Jorg Schillings page for cdrecord you will note that there > is a firmware upgrade for the Plextor PX-W8432T > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private >/firmware.html > > It is also referenced on the Plextor Technical support page > http://www.plextor.be/english/technical/download2.html > > and the README for the upgrade specifically mentions this drive > http://makecd.core.de/ftp/FlashROM.readme > > The only thing not mentioned is what the upgrade actually does? > > I think we can probably conclude that you need to upgrade the firmware of > the drive before it will work :( > > derek > > On Monday 28 January 2002 23:55, RichardA wrote: > > Chris, > > > > Tried mkisofs. Had all sorts of fun (confused my /tmp with system /tmp, > > hacked way through man pages, realised many years of Windows experience > > useless). Eventually got a 1.2 MB test.iso. Then: > > > > [root@drina richard]# cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -dummy /tmp/test.iso > > > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > > Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > > scsidev: '0,0,0' > > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 > > Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' > > atapi: 1 > > Device type : Removable CD-ROM > > Version : 0 > > Response Format: 1 > > Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' > > Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T' > > Revision : '1.07' > > Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM. > > cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found > > on this target. > > > > cdrecord thinks my CDRW is an ordinary CD-ROM drive? > > > > Richard > > > > Chris Keelan, Sunday 27 January 2002 20:54: > > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:23:45 +0000, RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > spilled a can of spare bits all over the network, which arranged > > > > > > themselves like so: > > > > Am I right in thinking that root cannot have permission problems, so > > > > this is about scsi settings? > > > > > > Well, that's a definite "maybe". > > > > > > I'd like to see if we can get some more troubleshooting info, so let's > > > start at the hardware and work our way up. > > > > > > cdrecord can find your CDRW. That suggests to me that it's been > > > installed properly. > > > > > > Try making a test iso in a temp directory. I'm going to pretend you've > > > copied file1, file2, file3 into /temp (a total of say, 25Mb). > > > > > > As root, > > > > > > # mkiso -r -J /temp/test.iso /temp/file* > > > > > > Then do: > > > > > > # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -dummy /temp/test.iso > > > > > > This is a dummy burn and won't actually toast a CDR. Watch the debug > > > output carefully (anyone know how to pipe this to a file?) > > > > > > If that works, then both your CDRW and the underlying cd-burning > > > programs are configured correctly. This, then may be a problem with > > > gcombust which I won't be able to help you with, since I burn > > > everything via command line. If it doesn't work, let us know what > > > errors occur. > > > > > > - C
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