RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread martin
[snip] (why the blazes don't people accept that burners actually come in two flavours of electronics?) I don't much have an opinion on this one (jee's i don't know HOW the things work, i just know how to make them work!), but looking at the CDR howto gives us something along the lines of

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I gave to a friend!) but to get you started in A direction; I am

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip Than You Ian. I found the paper I was looking for at "

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-)

RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: 29 September 1999 15:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: OK John, thanks for the confirmation - now can you tell me please - if I want to emulate scsi (for the burner), then when I do finally make my (full) reinstall, should I say yes or no to scsi at install time - just wondering how self propelled the emulation is,

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-) No, it's not. It actualy doesn't matter what

RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Not really, you can't just drag and drop files to it. You HAVE to use a utility such as cdrecord from the console or xcdroast from with X (and there are other newer ones appearing all the time). These programs don't talk to the CDR using the normal

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrwiso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev00 "ro" for a CDRW Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a CDRW? :-) No. I don't know that Linux supports the kind of drag-n-drop rewriting that

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-29 Thread bay56
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] CDWR and Zip scsi is the native way to talk to devices like CDRs, which makes scsi-emulation the more natural way to do it I'm sure not going to pick

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread bay56
/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:42 AM Subject: [newbie] CDWR and Zip Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Paul Benjamin
Are you using Gnome, KDE, or something else for your desktop?

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I gave to a friend!) but to get you started in A direction; I am guessing they will be something like:

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Philp
Thomas Peter wrote: Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on boot up that they are being loaded. I even find them listed under block devices. But I cannot find the command string to access them. I want to set up a link to mount them on my desk top as I have for my

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Thomas Peter
erver is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:42 AM Subject: [newbie] CDWR and Zip Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on bo

[newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-27 Thread Thomas Peter
Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on boot up that they are being loaded. I even find them listed under block devices. But I cannot find the command string to access them. I want to set up a link to mount them on my desk top as I have for my 3.5 and CDrom. I have