Thanks for your suggestion, only problem is I can't 'alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' because scsi_hostadapter is already alias'd to my real SCSI adapter. Any ideas? Thanks, Harold On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 07:45, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 20:19, Harold Martin wrote: > > Whenever I try to burn I CD I get the error: > > cdrecord: OPC failed. > > > > Yes, I know OPC means Optical Power Calibration. > > But why is it failing? I'm using a brand new CD-RW! > > Thanks for your help, > > I've been trying to hack a similar problem for months on my RH8 system > and finally got the burner to work. (I don't think the burner is > anything out of the ordinary: a SONY CD-RW CRX220E1, 52X/24/X/52X). I > have little more than a vague understanding as to why this fix works and > would be interested in any comments from the more technically > knowledgeable: > > (1) I use cdrecord from the command line or xcdroast (one of its GUIs) > (2) "cdrecord -scanbus" lists the device as 0,0,0 > (3) /etc/modules.conf includes the lines: > options ide-cd ignore=hdc > alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi > alias scsi_cd ide-scsi > alias scd0 sr_mod > (4) Although the burner specs give a write speed of 24X I don't use > speeds higher than 8X. > (5) I have the FIFO Buffer set to 16MB, the largest value possible in > the xcdroast "Setup - CD Settings" menu. > (6) I've been using heavily discounted Memorex CD-R's. > > I hope this helps! > > Jerry >
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