Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-18 Thread Jim
"Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Mark/Jimthat's not true, a CD-RW can function as a music CD (if it's properly hooked up to the so

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
t; > > - Original Message - > > From: "~-=Mark=-~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner > > > > Unless I'

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-17 Thread Jeff
Hi Jim, Have you looked for a firmware upgrade from Creative? I had this same problem with my CD-RW drive and then after I found a firmware upgrade all is well. My drive is a Memorex however the problem your describing is exactly what happened to me. I thought it a loose cable at first also l

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-16 Thread Mogens Jæger
> > > I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it > > just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light > > comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of > > the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
t the Creative cdrw 4224 drive...my zip drive is ok as > > well as both hard drivessure would like to get this little problem > > worked thruI am getting tired of manually changing cd drives to access > a > > cdrom in linux > > > > Jim > > - Original M

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
e hardware to be seen and used as what it is. Charles - Original Message - From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner > Most interesting part of

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
play around with the settings and hook-ups for the hardware to be seen and used as what it is. Charles - Original Message - From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for hel

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
- From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Mark, ...the Creative > cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Mark, ...the Creative > cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as a > normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the OS > and the way it is attempting to address the hardware. > > you might be better se

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
Mark, it reads everything fine in windoze. I am not attempting to read cdrw disks in Linux I am attempting to read professionally produced cdroms produced by ManDrake Linux that were provided by them in my 7.0 release...the Creative cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze)

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Weaver
when I purchased the MD 7.0 package > > Jim > > - Original Message - > From: "~-=Mark=-~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner >

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Jim
Jim - Original Message - From: "~-=Mark=-~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
Unless I'm missunderstanding you can't display normal CD's with a CDRW because they won't/can't read regular CD format. I'm still having a bit a problem telling the difference between a CD writer and a CD RE-Writer. The reason you can't eject after all this is because as far as the hardware is co

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jim wrote: > > I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it > seems worse > > I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it > just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light > comes on and after a few minutes I

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Jim
nie tryjust made it worse.had to wait forever for it to tell me it didn't like that at all...LOL Jim - Original Message - From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet agai

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Oh, I know exactly what you mean! ;-) I dunnoleave it to me to come up with a weird > one...LOL > > Jim

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Jim
bject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner Jim, I've had similar problems with mine. What I found is that if you use the cd player to eject your music cd, then; the cd works fine or if it doesn't; just keep the cd player on screen and us it to eject the cd's. I kno

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Jim
Thanks for the response, in windoze the drive performs perfectly...I used it to burn my copy of MD 7.1 and when booting linux it's recognized correctly all cables are tight and installed correctlygot me totally baffled! when I power down before rebooting it comes back in the bios...on a warm

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Jim wrote: > > I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it > seems worse > > I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it > just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light > comes on and after a few minutes I

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Jim, I've had similar problems with mine. What I found is that if you use the cd player to eject your music cd, then; the cd works fine or if it doesn't; just keep the cd player on screen and us it to eject the cd's. I know it's weird, BUT; it worked for me. Sorry, can't help you on the remainde

[newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Jim
I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that