Re: Aurora 2.99 on Ultra 60 with Yamaha SCSI CDRW

You're right mat h.  I didn't dig too deep, I just thought I'd see if  
anyone had a quick pro tip.  i'll have ot do some more troubleshooting.


Rick Doran




On 9-May-08, at 12:00 PM,  
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> From: mat h <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora 2.99 on Ultra 60 with Yamaha
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> $man cdrecord
>
> I don't mean to be glib, but it really is the best way. Check dmesg |  
> grep -i cd and do all the sensible command line research and diagnosis  
> first, especially cdrecord -scanbus and then with checkdrive and  
> driveropts=help once you've confirmed it's address.
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> I've got an admittedly pretty crappy USB CD writer hanging off my  
> Ultra60 that doesn't seem to like 2.99 much, although it's worked in  
> previous releases.
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> Cheers.
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>> To: [email protected]
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:01:05 -0400
>> Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora 2.99 on Ultra 60 with Yamaha SCSI  
>> CDRW
>>
>> I have an Ultra60 running 2.99 with some external SCSI disk cache, a
>> DLT4000 tape drive and an internal SCSI Yamaha 16/10/40 cd writer.  My
>> problem is that I cannot burn a files to a blank cd on the Yamaha cd
>> wrtier.  When using Gnome or KDE, I can load a blank cd in the drive
>> and it will show up on the desktop, but I cannot burn files using CD
>> Writer or Gnome CD Master.  With KDE cd roast told me that I did not
>> have the right device and it seems like it was looking for an IDE
>> device instead of SCSI.  The drive does not really appear to mount  
>> with
>> a blank disk in the drive and I have not been able to successfully
>> mount it manually.  I can load a disk with files alraedy on it,
>> although is does not seem to auto-mount, and read files after manually
>> mounting the device.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make
>> this cd writer fully functional?
>>
>>
>> Rick Doran
>>
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