Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: These are _real_ cheap generic CDR's from OfficeMax, $11 for a 50 spindle. I can always write successfully to 'em a 8x (max for my burner). I suspect 'Indicated writing power: 5' (below) doesn't refer to max writing speed as (IRRC) the label on the spindle said they were good for 16x. FWIW tho, anything important to me I burn at 4x. tom$ cdrecord -atip dev=0,3,0 Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T' Revision : '1.09' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation I have checked for one Sony cdr and mits cdrw. I see speed in rw not r any explanation? cdr Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11839 (97:24/11) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 24 Manufacturer: SONY Corporation cdrw Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Reference speed: 2 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11078 (97:34/22) ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 3 5 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5C C6 26 Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 11 Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation what is Reference speed? how is connected to Indicated writing power. Then what is recommended erase/write power? there is no recommended erase/write power for cdr. why? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
http://www.plasmontech.com/downloads/pdf/mke7503_scsi.pdf: Reference Speed Field - encoded information indicating the recommended write speed for the media. Valid only for CD-RW media. It would appear to drop in the middle of the CD's high and low speed. CD-RWs I just bought have a low speed of 4, reference speed of 6, and high speed of 8. Miark On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 07:19:44 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Reference speed: 2 speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 3 5 what is Reference speed? how is connected to Indicated writing power. Then what is recommended erase/write power? there is no recommended erase/write power for cdr. why? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
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:- [rootlocalhost 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. [rootlocalhost 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. [rootlocalhost 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:53 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: 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. snip Hello Malcolm; If my small assistance was of any value you are very welcome and I'm delighted. I'm very happy that you solved the problem since my brain was starting to hurt trying to come up with a solution that made sense. Or was that a weather change migraine? H ;-) The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower speed and a lower intensity laser for a CD-RW. I've never had that problem since all my CD-RWs are rated for minimum speeds well within the operating envelope of the Mitsumi. Too weird in any event. Kudos for not giving in or giving up. I've known a few people that ran back to Windows screaming Linux is too hard! over less puzzling difficulties. You've done well my friend. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower speed and a lower intensity laser for a CD-RW. I've never had that problem since all my CD-RWs are rated for minimum speeds well within the operating envelope of the Mitsumi. Run cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 or whatever you dev is, and the CD will report what speeds it's good for. I was surprised to find a set new CDs I that bought said they had a minimum speed of 4. I was surprised at the time, but it makes more sense now, considering laser power levels. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Wednesday November 6 2002 10:20 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower speed and a lower intensity laser for a CD-RW. I've never had that problem since all my CD-RWs are rated for minimum speeds well within the operating envelope of the Mitsumi. Run cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 or whatever you dev is, and the CD will report what speeds it's good for. I was surprised to find a set new CDs I that bought said they had a minimum speed of 4. I was surprised at the time, but it makes more sense now, considering laser power levels. Miark These are _real_ cheap generic CDR's from OfficeMax, $11 for a 50 spindle. I can always write successfully to 'em a 8x (max for my burner). I suspect 'Indicated writing power: 5' (below) doesn't refer to max writing speed as (IRRC) the label on the spindle said they were good for 16x. FWIW tho, anything important to me I burn at 4x. tom$ cdrecord -atip dev=0,3,0 Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T' Revision : '1.09' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:20 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower speed and a lower intensity laser for a CD-RW. I've never had that problem since all my CD-RWs are rated for minimum speeds well within the operating envelope of the Mitsumi. Run cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 or whatever you dev is, and the CD will report what speeds it's good for. I was surprised to find a set new CDs I that bought said they had a minimum speed of 4. I was surprised at the time, but it makes more sense now, considering laser power levels. Miark Yep, I was aware of that but why the devil didn't any of us think to tell _Malcolm_? LMAO Just shows that if things become automatic for a person in GNU/Linux it's hard to remember how we got there so we can pass it on to a fellow 'gnubie', doesn't it? Thanks Miark. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
Hello Charlie, I have listed my mtab fstab files below and think they look ok. Also tryed changing to speeds 1 2 3.or 4 and used the 'v' but still get the report:- cdrecord : Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. You were certainly right about re-booting and getting the cdrecord -scanbus back on line. /etc/mtab file /dev/hdb5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /etc/fstab file /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0 If you get too burdened with all of this please just say, but I am grateful to you more than you know. It's useful to have you at my side thrashing it out! 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:- [rootlocalhost 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. [rootlocalhost 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. [rootlocalhost 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
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
Dear Charlie, It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I have copied the results as follows:- [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject /home/malcolm/mtdir-25oct02.raw 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. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. [rootlocalhost 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. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. [rootlocalhost malcolm]# ##What on earth is /dev/pg3, I have no /dev/pg files! 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 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. The file:/usr/doc/cdrdao-1.1.6/README was not installed on my system. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 19:45, Charlie wrote: Interspersed. On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:03 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi Charlie, Howdy! :-) Your material was very useful and indicates a divergence in the 'cdrecord' debug notices, This was apparent in:- ATIP info from disc Indicated writing power 5 (mine 3) Reference speed 2 (mine 6) Speed low 0 high 4 (mine 4 8) Power multi factor 5 6 (mine 4 8) Recommended erase speed 3 (mine 5) This information is read from the blank CD-RW in the drive. It's the main reason I told you what I was using for the test. To minimize misunderstanding about the displayed differences but I think I screwed up. Did you notice that mine says Illegal Manufacturer code? It isn't, it's just a rather old 650 MB -RW that has a Windows back-up on it from 3 years ago. It was written in Windows 98 SE using Adaptec (Roxio now) 4 Easy CD Creator. Or was it Direct CD? One or the other. The UDF file placed on the disk by that software gives Linux a mild headache. :-( It can be overcome with simple mounting flags so you can read what you need most of the time. From your previous message: ATIP start of lead in: -11745 (97:25/30) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) speed low: 4 speed high: 8 power mult factor: 1 5 recommended erase/write power: 5 A2 values: 26 B2 4A Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 40 Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd. Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 275767 cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. cdrecord: fifo had 0 puts and 0 gets. *NO DATA TRANSFER* cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. *NO DATA TRANSFER* cdrecord seems to not be reading the ISO file you want to copy at all Malcolm. Why? Have you tried in a terminal, localhost malcolm]# cd (to the directory containing the ISO) locahost (that directory)]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,3,0 -eject /directoryname/isoname and _is the CD-RW you're using blank?_ Have you added your user to the cdrom and cdwriter groups yet? Are you trying to burn a back-up from October 25 direct to CD-RW? Or is it already made and you just want to copy it to the CD? Either way the following how-to article may be of some benefit to you: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5327 I still get:- 'cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer'. That ain't an error my friend, it's a warning. Theory says that you should use media that is compatible (speed rating for one) with the drive you're using to minimize the risk of damage. Your drive (and mine) maxes at 4x4x24 and the media is rated for higher speed. Most of the time it won't matter but you may want to think about verifying the burn before you need it. For example all of the blank CD-Rs (spindle of 50 90 minute and a box of ten 80 minute) I have are rated at up to 40x certified but there's slim chance I'll buy a new burner before I'm forced to. I probably wouldn't burn at that high speed anyway since I don't need any more coasters/ornaments. I made enough under Windows for a lifetime. ;-) The Mitsumi still makes usable install disks or anything else I need. I'll worry when it doesn't. It looks as if I need to rewrite some 'cdrecord' files to get your values. Hav'nt found the files yet, if you know what file please let me know.The /usr/bin/cdrecord is not a script file, referred to as 'Type unknown 238.9 KB.' in 'Properties'. That's the actual executable. Read this file:
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
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:- [rootlocalhost 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. [rootlocalhost 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. [rootlocalhost 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
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
Interspersed. On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:03 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi Charlie, Howdy! :-) Your material was very useful and indicates a divergence in the 'cdrecord' debug notices, This was apparent in:- ATIP info from disc Indicated writing power 5 (mine 3) Reference speed 2 (mine 6) Speed low 0 high 4 (mine 4 8) Power multi factor 5 6 (mine 4 8) Recommended erase speed 3 (mine 5) This information is read from the blank CD-RW in the drive. It's the main reason I told you what I was using for the test. To minimize misunderstanding about the displayed differences but I think I screwed up. Did you notice that mine says Illegal Manufacturer code? It isn't, it's just a rather old 650 MB -RW that has a Windows back-up on it from 3 years ago. It was written in Windows 98 SE using Adaptec (Roxio now) 4 Easy CD Creator. Or was it Direct CD? One or the other. The UDF file placed on the disk by that software gives Linux a mild headache. :-( It can be overcome with simple mounting flags so you can read what you need most of the time. From your previous message: ATIP start of lead in: -11745 (97:25/30) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) speed low: 4 speed high: 8 power mult factor: 1 5 recommended erase/write power: 5 A2 values: 26 B2 4A Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 40 Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd. Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 275767 cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. cdrecord: fifo had 0 puts and 0 gets. *NO DATA TRANSFER* cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. *NO DATA TRANSFER* cdrecord seems to not be reading the ISO file you want to copy at all Malcolm. Why? Have you tried in a terminal, localhost malcolm]# cd (to the directory containing the ISO) locahost (that directory)]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,3,0 -eject /directoryname/isoname and _is the CD-RW you're using blank?_ Have you added your user to the cdrom and cdwriter groups yet? Are you trying to burn a back-up from October 25 direct to CD-RW? Or is it already made and you just want to copy it to the CD? Either way the following how-to article may be of some benefit to you: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5327 I still get:- 'cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer'. That ain't an error my friend, it's a warning. Theory says that you should use media that is compatible (speed rating for one) with the drive you're using to minimize the risk of damage. Your drive (and mine) maxes at 4x4x24 and the media is rated for higher speed. Most of the time it won't matter but you may want to think about verifying the burn before you need it. For example all of the blank CD-Rs (spindle of 50 90 minute and a box of ten 80 minute) I have are rated at up to 40x certified but there's slim chance I'll buy a new burner before I'm forced to. I probably wouldn't burn at that high speed anyway since I don't need any more coasters/ornaments. I made enough under Windows for a lifetime. ;-) The Mitsumi still makes usable install disks or anything else I need. I'll worry when it doesn't. It looks as if I need to rewrite some 'cdrecord' files to get your values. Hav'nt found the files yet, if you know what file please let me know.The /usr/bin/cdrecord is not a script file, referred to as 'Type unknown 238.9 KB.' in 'Properties'. That's the actual executable. Read this file: file:/usr/doc/cdrdao-1.1.6/README and this page: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/utils/uiso.html for more than I ever wanted to know. I don't think you really need to change any of the cdrecord code. :-) Just have to figure out what's causing you grief. It really is very kind of you to spend the time on my problems. I hope I may return the pleasure to another some day. I suppose that is the 'Linux' community way. Malcolm since I'm disabled you are actually doing me a favour by posing an interesting problem that I may be able to help solve. Before I became a computer chair potato I was called a work-a-holic, and still have those nasty urges. So you're very welcome for any small help I've been able to offer you. Plus I have a rare incurable disorder that relates. It's called insatiable curiosity. :-) Anyway thanks you really are a star. Malcolm Candlish. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A ROTTEN DAY: #15 Your pet rock snaps at you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:45 am, Jim Dawson wrote: On a related note, does anyone know if DVD+R/+RW is supported under Linux? The versions of cdrecord that I have used support DVD-R/-RW but not +R/+RW. Also, does DVD+RW packet writing mode (mount the DVD as a volume and write to it like any other R/W removable media) work under Linux? Thanks. Good questions. Read about Mount Ranier disk writing software using your favourite search engine since packet writing is what it's supposed to be it's primary focus, and you may want to check out this site: http://www.dvdwriters.co.uk/ cdrecord is a 'work in progress' as with almost all GNU GPL software. Straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html and the project pages at freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/?topic_id=257%2C19%2C845%2C118%2C139 has all the links and the information you need may be there or linked there. There's an updated version as of Monday by the way. Everything I know about burning software I learned from reading the links I found on Google searches. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cynic, n.: Experienced. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 4:08 am, you wrote: I would suggest that you turn off html format in your posts and stop posting with 24 point type. If there are special circumstances (poor eyesight or something) please accept my apologies for the rant. - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Oddly enough, I needed a magnifying glass to read this :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
Dennis, Thank you very much for your kind reply. I reinstalled Mandrake 9.0 and at least this time the CDR was auto-detected with 'cdrecord -scandisk' as on 0,3,0. However it still will not work, due to the following error messages from both X-CD-Roast and the cdrecord command line as follows:- cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. The 'cdrecord -scanbus' followed by the 'cdrecord' command line follows:- [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4804TE ' '2.6C' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,3,0 -isosize mtdir-25oct02.raw Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'MITSUMI ' Identifikation : 'CR-4804TE ' Revision : '2.6C' Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 164 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 188 MB (18:41.08) = 84081 sectors Lout start: 188 MB (18:43/06) = 84081 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 3 Reference speed: 6 Is not unrestricted Is erasable Disk sub type: High speed Rewritable (CAV) media (1) ATIP start of lead in: -11745 (97:25/30) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) speed low: 4 speed high: 8 power mult factor: 1 5 recommended erase/write power: 5 A2 values: 26 B2 4A Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 40 Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd. Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 275767 cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. cdrecord: fifo had 0 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. [rootlocalhost malcolm]# The machine has a Celeron 500 chip with 128 mg ram and 198 swap space. Any comments will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Malcolm Candlish. On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 19:31, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 25 October 2002 01:09 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish. Which OS are you using? MandrakeLinux 8.2, 9.0? I have the same burner and it works very well. It was autodetected and set up during install. Give us some details and/or error messages to go by, a solution is on the list. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
Hi Charlie of Edmonton Canada, Thank you very much for your kind reply. I re-installed Mandrake 9.0 and at least this time the CDR was auto-detected with 'cdrecord -scandisk' as on 0,3,0. However it still will not work, due to the following error messages from both X-CD-Roast and the cdrecord command line as follows:- cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. I have changed the speed on the command line to all I know, but of no avail. As I have Windows XP on a separate disc I do not use 'lilo', due to it perhaps not being compatible, so I boot with a floppy. Yes the CDR is on a motherboard ide channel. Would have been hdc, but referred to in fstab as 'cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0. The 'cdrecord -scanbus' followed by the 'cdrecord' command line follows:- [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4804TE ' '2.6C' Removable CD-ROM 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,3,0 -isosize mtdir-25oct02.raw Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'MITSUMI ' Identifikation : 'CR-4804TE ' Revision : '2.6C' Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 164 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 188 MB (18:41.08) = 84081 sectors Lout start: 188 MB (18:43/06) = 84081 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 3 Reference speed: 6 Is not unrestricted Is erasable Disk sub type: High speed Rewritable (CAV) media (1) ATIP start of lead in: -11745 (97:25/30) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) speed low: 4 speed high: 8 power mult factor: 1 5 recommended erase/write power: 5 A2 values: 26 B2 4A Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 40 Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd. Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 275767 cdrecord: Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. cdrecord: fifo had 0 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. [rootlocalhost malcolm]# The machine has a Celeron 500 chip with 128 mg ram and 198 swap space. Any comments will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Malcolm Candlish. On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 21:12, Charlie wrote: On Friday 25 October 2002 12:29 pm, Spencer wrote: On October 25, 2002 11:09 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish. As root, what does ' cdrecord --scanbus' say? I have the same drive and it's worked no trouble since Mandrake 7.2. Auto detected, set up at first boot, using the k3b front end I can even DAO direct copy from CD (LiteOn 40X CD-ROM is the other drive) to blank media which makes life easier when copying Mandrake download disks for friends that want to try the distribution. There's a firmware update, two actually, for it at the Mitsumi website: www.mitsumi.com/enduser/1_drivers.html will try it- thanks supposedly for Windows only to allow you to use media larger than 650 MB. I updated mine back when I still ran Windows 98 SE (Feb. 2000) and it's able to use up to 90 minute blanks, so far without trouble. Also 700 MB CD-RWs. Seems the update really did work? You said you'd already tried to set it up via the HOWTO; which how to? Also worthwhile information would be what version of Mandrake (?) are you working with? The 'HOWTO' was with the Mandrake 9.0. I had no idea there were more than one in this subject! By Winfried Trumper 22 July 2000. Just a guess, in /etc/lilo.conf is your kernel being passed hdx=ide-scsi in the append line? If not you may want to make it so using the relevant hd? for the drive on your system. Last thoughts for the moment; have you added your user to the cdrom and cdwriter groups, and is the drive on the motherboard IDE channel or are you using a controller card? Good luck and pass along a bit more
[newbie] CD-Writing.
Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish.
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Friday 25 October 2002 01:09 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish. Which OS are you using? MandrakeLinux 8.2, 9.0? I have the same burner and it works very well. It was autodetected and set up during install. Give us some details and/or error messages to go by, a solution is on the list. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On October 25, 2002 11:09 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish. As root, what does ' cdrecord --scanbus' say? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Friday 25 October 2002 12:29 pm, Spencer wrote: On October 25, 2002 11:09 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish. As root, what does ' cdrecord --scanbus' say? I have the same drive and it's worked no trouble since Mandrake 7.2. Auto detected, set up at first boot, using the k3b front end I can even DAO direct copy from CD (LiteOn 40X CD-ROM is the other drive) to blank media which makes life easier when copying Mandrake download disks for friends that want to try the distribution. There's a firmware update, two actually, for it at the Mitsumi website: www.mitsumi.com/enduser/1_drivers.html supposedly for Windows only to allow you to use media larger than 650 MB. I updated mine back when I still ran Windows 98 SE (Feb. 2000) and it's able to use up to 90 minute blanks, so far without trouble. Also 700 MB CD-RWs. Seems the update really did work? You said you'd already tried to set it up via the HOWTO; which how to? Also worthwhile information would be what version of Mandrake (?) are you working with? Just a guess, in /etc/lilo.conf is your kernel being passed hdx=ide-scsi in the append line? If not you may want to make it so using the relevant hd? for the drive on your system. Last thoughts for the moment; have you added your user to the cdrom and cdwriter groups, and is the drive on the motherboard IDE channel or are you using a controller card? Good luck and pass along a bit more information please. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CD-Writing.
I would suggest that you turn off html format in your posts and stop posting with 24 point type. If there are special circumstances (poor eyesight or something) please accept my apologies for the rant. -Richard L. Babcock, OwnerTower TrainingAt Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You!www.towertraining.net -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm CandlishSent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:10 PMTo: Mandrake ListSubject: [newbie] CD-Writing. Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone else had this problem? Malcolm Candlish.
[newbie] CD-Writing problems...again
It's a subject that keeps coming up, but I've been unable to get it to work by referencing previous answers. MY CDWriter on /dev/hdd which was autodetected and worked perfectly under 8.0 will not work under 8.1 CDRecord gives me this response :- [root@Derek derek]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. My fstab entry looks like this /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,user,exec,ro,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 My lilo.conf has an entry :- append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet modprobe -c includes the line probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi Hard Drake detects the drive as both IDE and SCSI, but does not list any SCSI interfaces. I can read discs inserted in the drive. The only thing not working seems to be the SCSI Any suggestions? Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd writing howto
On 01 Oct 2001 16:59:49 -0400, Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't there a Mandrake specific cd-writing howto somewhere? -Paul Rodríguez Try http://www.mandrakeuser.org. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Also we should remember that unfortunately free software is not widely used because people prefers to have something to plug'n'play and not something to configure'n'work. -- Pier Luca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd writing howto
Wasn't there a Mandrake specific cd-writing howto somewhere? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd writing howto
On Monday 01 October 2001 16:59, you wrote: Wasn't there a Mandrake specific cd-writing howto somewhere? -Paul Rodr?guez Paul, The best HOWTO I found (that got me up and running quickly with my LITE-ON 16x10x40) was: CD-Writing with an ATAPI CDR Mini-HOWTO (Issue 57 of Linux Gazette) Another was CD-Writing HOWTO by Winifried Trumper. (I can't remember wher I found it) Hope this helps, and good coasting! Andre -- The windows of opportunity have performed an illegal operation . . . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
