Re: cdrw woes

2001-12-27 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:18:34 + Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am always amazed > how many red faces this advice produces, but clean the $£"! disk - make sure > you can see no pawprint on it. Well, it didn't have any pawprints or any burn tracks either. Ahem, I forgot to un

Re: cdrw woes

2001-12-27 Thread Keith Antoine
Chris Kassopulo wrote: > Greetings, > > I bought an HP9100 cdrw a while back cause my cdrom died. Installed it, > burned a cd in windows and linux - no problems. I've only used it since > as a reader. I can read the cd I burnt when I installed. I burn a cd > today, the right things happen (

Re: cdrw woes

2001-12-27 Thread Mike Andrew
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:33, Net Llama wrote: > 1) What's the deal with the wacky chained symlinks? Symlinks are a > truly horrible idea when it comes to block devices, because most people > have no clue what they're trying to do with them (the infamous > /dev/cdrom thing on RedHat boxes comes imm

Re: cdrw woes

2001-12-27 Thread Net Llama
Two things are jumping out at me here (in addition to Declan's excellent suggestion to try mounting a known-good CD): 1) What's the deal with the wacky chained symlinks? Symlinks are a truly horrible idea when it comes to block devices, because most people have no clue what they're trying to do w

Re: cdrw woes

2001-12-27 Thread Declan Moriarty
At a guess, (GUESS) your system doesn't know what protocol the cdr is written, is trying to automount it and going through a few modules before giving up the ghost The usual failure mode for a cdr/cdrw is failure to read. I am always amazed how many red faces this advice produces, but

cdrw woes

2001-12-26 Thread Chris Kassopulo
Greetings, I bought an HP9100 cdrw a while back cause my cdrom died. Installed it, burned a cd in windows and linux - no problems. I've only used it since as a reader. I can read the cd I burnt when I installed. I burn a cd today, the right things happen (lights and gcombust feedback) but whe