Re: xroastcd fails to verify

[Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>]

Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

> Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
> Identifikation : 'CD-R   CW-7502  '
> Revision       : '4.10'

Cdrecord's website (as well as cdrdao's) states that it won't work with
the drive if it has firmware <4.14, because it isn't compliant with
SCSI standards or smth to that effect. You have 4.10. If I were you,
I'd upgrade the firmware to start with.

OTOH, I have the same CDR with 4.17, and it doesn't work under
Linux. I'm quite desperate at this point -- have been trying for 3
months, and no luck -- cdrecord (and cdrdao) both crap out at the very 
beginning of the burning process, saying threre's some SCSI retryable
error. Have to boot into Win every time I want to burn a CD. :(

So, my advice for you is to first try 4.14, and only if it doesn't
work, then try the 4.17. AFAIK 4.17 doesn't have any significant
improvements. See http://homepages.tig.com.au/~cdysan/cw-7502/

Oh well, I won't whine any more -- this doesn't help *your*
problem. At least your drive starts recording.

I'm considering downgrading firmware to 4.14 just to try -- maybe it
will work... [sigh]

-- 
Arcady Genkin
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