[ale] Bad drive?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Paula -

If the underside (not the label side) of the CD is silver or (less likely)
gold, then it's not a CD-R.  If it's greenish, blue-green, or blue, it's a
CD-R or CD-RW.  Bulk CD fabbing only works economically in large batches
(like, 500-1000 and up); an outfit seeing to demand-follow (low-overhead)
would use a CD duper and CD-R media.  

I would suspect an 8x drive of potentially having trouble with a CD-R; I
would put 16x as the borderline.  It's not an issue of the speed but whether
or not the drive was designed with CD-R media in mind or not (reflectivity
and therefore analog signal-to-noise ratio is reduced).  

- Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eichler, Paula J. [mailto:pja0 at cdc.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] Bad drive?
> 
> 
> Actually, it could have been, as the old drive was an 8x, but 
> I got the
> install CD from LinuxMall.  I don't know what media they use, but my
> assumtion would be CD-R.  Junkers have generally been a 
> challenge for me too
> ...pj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:Jhubbs at niit.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:21 AM
> To: Eichler, Paula J.; 'Scott Nolde'; ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] Bad drive?
> 
> 
> Could this also be a case of a CD-R or CD-RW being used in a 
> CD-ROM drive
> from the pre-CD-R era?  I run into such problems pretty 
> regularly, even just
> last night (I'm trying to make a MOSIX cluster out of junkers).
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eichler, Paula J. [mailto:pja0 at cdc.gov]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:37 AM
> > To: 'Scott Nolde'; ale at ale.org
> > Subject: RE: [ale] Bad drive?
> > 
> > 
> > I got something like this installing Red Hat 6.2 and Mandrake 
> > 7.2.  It was a
> > bad CDROM drive.  Replacing the CDROM drive got rid of the 
> > error and I was
> > able to install ...pj
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Nolde [mailto:smnoldelinux at mediaone.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:46 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] Bad drive?
> > 
> > 
> > Am I looking at a bad drive?  Or is this more of a kernel 
> > problem?  I'm
> > running kernel 2.4.1.
> > 
> > Feb 28 17:44:02 ws6 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> > Feb 28 17:44:02 ws6 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> > Feb 28 17:44:02 ws6 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { 
> > DriveReady
> > SeekComplete DataRequest }
> > Feb 28 17:44:02 ws6 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { 
> > DriveReady
> > SeekComplete DataRequest }
> > Feb 28 17:44:02 ws6 kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> > Feb 28 17:44:02 ws6 kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> > 
> > 
> > - Scott
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