Re: buring potato iso's for an older CDROM
Hello Hanasaki,
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 hanasaki@ns1.microlink.net wrote:
> I have an oold cdrom that seems to work fine with commericial CD's.
>
> Reads rh6.x and windows install cd's fine
>
> It will not read the debian potato CD i burned off the web
> fyi: this same CD works read/boots fine in my newer CD-ROM
>
> How can i burn the ISO image so the old drive will read it?
> mode1? 2?
> cdrecord and adaptec easyCD creater instructions would be helpful
The following experience of mine might be useful information if someone is
trying to debug the problem.
I have found the same problem with the CDROM drive in my oldest machine.
The CDROMS which cannot be read are Debian 2.2, OpenMotif, and a handful
of other OpenSource (non-commercial) CDs, and also the commercial CDs from
one British computer magazine. The problem only became apparent a few
months ago. Up until then that drive would read anything. I think this
must relate to some new version of burning software.
The machine with this problem is an old 486 still running Debian 2.0, with
an original Mitsumi 1X CDROM drive with its own interface card running on
the mcd kernel driver. This machine is still running bog-standard Debian
2.0 because it is just a backup workstation, and I couldn't be bothered
with giving it any more updates. (this machine started life with a very
early Slackware, progressed up the versions and then converted to Debian
1.3.1 and finally 2.0)
All the CDs affected are read perfectly by other machines I have running
later versions of Debian including 2.1, 2.2 and also Debian Progeny on a
modern CDR/W
While on the subject of my old Debian 2.0 machine, it might be interesting
to some that despite this distro not being claimed to be Y2K compliant, it
made it through the date transition with only the following problems: On
the 1st of Jan 2000 hwclock messed up completely and had to be reset, but
works fine now. Netscape 3 SSL certificate validation stopped working
(everyone knows about this though). Perl gave a year 100. And then late in
2000 my ntp updates stopped working. The final problem noted has been on
1st Jan 2001 when the Perl month slipped back one to give a month of 0.
These are the only problems noted, and none were in anyway critical. This
Debian 2.0 workstation still functions very nicely. The only reboots
needed since I installed Debian 2.0 on it were due to hardware problems,
except the one needed to cure the hwclock problem as above. Well done
Debian! (I still don't know what happened to ntp!)
Helen McCall
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