Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:38 am, David E Fox wrote: I'm really new at this, by the way. I have managed to coaster two CD-Rs so far, and burned OK twice on one verbatim CDRW. Maybe the media make all the difference? $15 for 100 cdrs is a good price, but not for 100 coasters (god I hope not)

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-18 Thread crak600
On Friday 18 July 2003 10:38 pm, David E Fox wrote: That's probably the best way to do it. One thing I did was to unplug my existing CD-ROM and plug in the cables from it to the new drive (Toshiba SD 1312 combo). This at last worked -- one thing is that the connector 1/2 way along the IDE

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Huff
Close out of everything else first, in case it causes a crash, but then type cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 at the command line and report back. eric On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:51:32 -0400 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto 0

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Derek Jennings
Your fstab and lilo.conf files look fine to me. My guess would be a hardware problem. I see the CD-RW is the only device on the secondary IDE interface. Do you have the 'master' jumper correctly set on the back of the CD drive? Or perhaps you have it set to 'Cable Select'? (Linux does not work

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 10-07-2003 a las 01:51, Michael escribió: been working with few people offlist to try to get my cd-rw drive to work, but i thought i'd post it back to the list to try to see if anyone else has ideas. cd-rw drive was origonally a supermount, it's been changed to automount. we've

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 04:10 am, Derek Jennings wrote: I see the CD-RW is the only device on the secondary IDE interface. Do you have the 'master' jumper correctly set on the back of the CD drive? Or perhaps you have it set to 'Cable Select'? (Linux does not work well with cable select)

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In win98, are you using DMA for your CDROM? not sure just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 02:04 am, Eric Huff wrote: cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 here it is Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:29 am, Michael wrote: btw, i've been trying to run that command. i open up a terminal, su -, password, then type append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma, then hit enter, then type lilo, and a bunch of stuff comes up that pretty much tells me it's

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and reboot. See if it keeps crashing. btw, i've been trying to

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday July 10 2003 09:30 am, Michael wrote: Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 ok, so what does all this tell us about my setup? thanks! That last line tells you the drive won't do DAO, so it's usefulness is sort'a limited. I'd get a different drive. You should see somethin like

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:55, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:29 am, Michael wrote: btw, i've been trying to run that command. i open up a terminal, su -, password, then type append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma, then hit enter, then type lilo, and a

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:55 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Er, I think that you are supposed to open up /etc/lilo.conf in an editor (like vi or kedit) then add those changes. After that, still as root or su, from a shell, type in /sbin/lilo (without the quotes). That will cause the changes

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday 10 July 2003 12:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday July 10 2003 09:30 am, Michael wrote: Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 ok, so what does all this tell us about my setup? thanks! That last line tells you the drive won't do DAO, so it's usefulness is sort'a

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:17 pm, Michael wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 02:34 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Mike - you, as user, can't edit the files. If you open up File Manager Super User Mode you are, in effect, editing the file as root, and will be able to save it. Anne same thing as

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 01:29, Michael wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and reboot.

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Huff
cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 here it is Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 8x4x32 ' Revision : 'G1.9' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). ok, so what does all this tell us about my setup? thanks!

[newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-09 Thread Michael
been working with few people offlist to try to get my cd-rw drive to work, but i thought i'd post it back to the list to try to see if anyone else has ideas. cd-rw drive was origonally a supermount, it's been changed to automount. we've modified fstab. i've tried kiwkdisc. none of it matters,