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
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