Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:40:11 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>> I'm using Debian Lenny,
>
> Long life to Lenny... though its support ends in a few days :-P
>
>> and have three (physical) CD-DVD readers, from which two are (physical)
>> CD-DVD writers. When burning a CD or DVD, even at very low speed (1x),
>> one always works, and the other always fails, giving a CD/DVD that can
>> then be thrown. I checked under the BIOS and there is no reason for the
>> second writer not to work.
>
> It can be just the drive went bad :-?
>
>> 1) Are there any burning-simulating utilities running under Debian
>> Lenny?
>
> Burning applications usually provide such option. In gnomebaker is called
> "dummy write" or something like that. Command line tools (wodim) do also
> have it. Using wodim will also give you more information about the
> burning error because messages will be output to the terminal.
>
>> 2) How could I solve this problem?
>
> I would run more tests. Can the drive read CD/DVDs just fine? It fails
> for every kind media (CR-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW...) and
> brands?
I will do so. Thanks for the info.
- --
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
- --
If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/>
iEYEARECAAYFAk8ps8QACgkQM0LLzLt8MhxXcgCdHEg2kLKWFmdNEra1G4i8N6Ld
KG8AoI9UOYgJa5e8acsu/Iw+RBTsOdLL
=DhMe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: