Re: CD/CD-RW drive not working on Dell Inspiron 7500

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:05:03AM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> > I can mount and read CDs and a CDRW written on a Yamaha SCSI burner
> > but 'burncd msinfo' and 'burncd blank' already give errors.  From
> > my kernel config:
> 
> Is this a CDRW? Other wise "blank" won't do anything. Also, since you 
> can mount the CDRs before you do burncd, is this a multisession CDR? If 
> so, try with a plain, empty CDR - I've had problems with multisession 
> ones before. Also, try burning at different speeds.

It was sold as a CDRW, the label on the unit says "8X CD-RW MODULE"
and the boot message is:

    Apr 18 11:35:41 i4100 /kernel: acd0: CD-RW <HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8080N> at ata1-master using PIO4

> As Brian suggested, try different CDR brands. Cheapo ones tend to fail 
> quite frequently (I usually have 5-10% failure rate when burning).

Even with "burncd msinfo" I get the error message immediately and I
never see the drive light come up.

Anyhow, I'll try and get one or more decent CD-RW disks, is Imation
any good?  BTW the one I have and tried is labeled Yamaha (came with
a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW drive).

> Lars
> -- 
> Lars Eggert <[email protected]>           USC Information Sciences Institute

Paul Schenkeveld

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