On Saturday 15 May 2004 14:45, you wrote: > Do you have a copy of Knoppix and two cd devices > hooked up to any (or can hook up two cdroms) to one > box? If so, give it a shot or do from the boot prompt > the following to 'mirror' the knoppix cd to a > partition, any partition so as to 'free up' the cdrom > device. No, but I ended up getting that burner (the TDK) to work on Mandrake 9.1, to my great surprise. I previously abandoned that upgrade because of instability (I think there are problems with my memory sticks that M8 somehow recovers from - but I'm not buying any new ones until the price drops!) Anyhow, I guess it goes to show that your advice was correct; when in doubt, try another distro. That's one burner working, two to go. Vaughn > > tohd > You can now do a "poor mans install" on vfat and > ext2-Partitions with, knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1 Version > 2003-09-22 and later. > > --- Vaughn Treude wrote: > > It gets better: > > I have THREE devices which can burn CD's. NONE of > > them work. I moved the > > original Polaroid burner from my "development" > > system to my "business and > > support" system, which also runs Mandrake 8, but has > > a different complement > > of drives. (I put the DVD burner on the development > > system because the > > processor is 4X faster.) The cdrecord program on > > the 2nd system will not see > > the Polaroid with a scanbus; it will only report the > > two SCSI hard drives. > > The Polaroid is atapi, hdc to be exact. Wouldn't it > > be nice if cdrecord > > would just accept dev=hdc instead of those silly > > numeric parameters? I did > > google on this - an easier problem to describe - and > > found a few suggestions, > > which I tried that didn't work. Yes, the ide-scsi > > module is loaded. Yes, > > the DMA is turned off for hdc. > > > > The third device is on my wife's system running > > windows 98. The program is > > NTI CD maker. This program formerly ran fine > > (though it made the occasional > > coaster), I hadn't used it in about a month, but I > > just recently (and > > reluctantly) upgraded her system to Office 2002 (aka > > Office XP, which does > > run on 98) because she need the new Microscheiss for > > class. It upgraded a > > scad of DLL's and I suspect that it is the culprit > > that broke the CD program, > > because I've rebooted the thing and any attempt to > > burn a CD still crashes > > the program. Perhaps I'll try reinstalling the CD > > maker program, if I can > > find the install CD. :-) > > > > Any of you old enough to remember the song, "They're > > coming to take me away > > ha ha to the funny farm where life is beautiful all > > the time ...." ? That's > > about where I'm at right now! :-) > > > > Vaughn > > > > On Saturday 15 May 2004 10:46, you wrote: > > > Hello: > > > I'm in a bit of a bind here - have to burn a CD > > > > before I leave on a > > > > > business trip on Monday, and I also need to return > > > > this drive to Fry's if > > > > > it's not going to work. I'm using cdrecord, just > > > > like on the old burner. > > > > > The trouble is this retarded drive keeps ejecting > > > > the blank media > > > > > automatically. (It doesn't do it with recorded > > > > media, so I assume it's > > > > > trying to mount everything and when it can't mount > > > > it, it spits it out.) > > > > > Then when cdrecord finishes its countdown the > > > > resource is unavailable, of > > > > > course. All the setup's the same as with the old > > > > Polaroid burner - the > > > > > device is /dev/cdrom and the it's defined in fstab > > > > as supermount. I > > > > > imagine this is a configuration problem, but I > > > > don't have time to hunt for > > > > > the solution today, so if anyone has a clue, I'd > > > > sure appreciate it. > > > > > Thanks, > > > Vaughn > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > > > > settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > > settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > ===== > Cyclists should expect and demand safe > accommodation on our public roads, > just as does every other user. > > Nothing more is expected. > > Nothing less is acceptable! > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. > http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss