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

Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
>>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

Sorry for being unclear, when I said CDRW and CDR above I was talking 
about the *media* you were using, not the drive.

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