Re: CD Burner

[Arcady Genkin <genkin@sympatico.ca>]

"Christopher J. Morrone" <morrone@wen.capsl.udel.edu> writes:

> > Just to add to everybody's whining, I should say that I haven't been
> > able to get my CDR (Panasonic 7502 SCSI) working for about 6 weeks
> > now. Yes, Me Too (tm), I have to boot into Windows to burn CDs and
> > scan. Lucky I don't play games. ;^)
> 
> Whats the problem?  You know the device name is /dev/scd* for a SCSI CDROM
> drive, and not /dev/sd*, right?

Actually, I'm using /dev/sg1 (/dev/sg0 is my CDROM).

Well, the problem is that although both cdrdao's and cdrecord's docs list
my drive among the supported, my tries for simulated burns failed with
both of them with the same error "SCSI retriable error" or smth to
that effect. After that the device would remain locked with BUSY light 
constantly on. "cdrecord -reset" doesn't help -- only reboot.

I tried all sorts of command lines, tried burning at 1x speed, 2x
speed and 4x speed. The drive is recognized correctly during the
system bootup, and is also recognized by the software. Burns happily
under WinNT and Win98.

I'm using latest versions of cdrdao and cdrecord, compiled from
source.

If anyone helps me with this, I'd be his/her (preferably) slave
forever should need be. :^) You see, I don't expect from Linux a great 
graphical program for this purpose -- I'm quite content with command
line. But alas -- all fails. :-\
-- 
Arcady Genkin
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