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 <vltreude@deru.com> 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
> >
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