[ale] speaking of cdrs...

[Paul D. Manno]

One interesting note with a SCSI Phillips CDD3600, it appears that it will 
still write perfectly nice CDRs as long as it's a "proper" media type.

The 3600 loves to write CDRs if they're the older greenish-blueish media 
but more often, the new media comes as a more gold-ish color.  When the 
newer media is used, the drive writes but fails the fixation with a SCSI 
error (drive not ready).  Use the darker color media, works error-free.

In my case, it's kernel-independent- everything from 2.0.36 to 2.4.9. Go 
figure.  I wonder if there's a firware upgrade for the 3600?

-- Paul

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:

> We have the same problem with a Phillips CDR on RH 7.1.  I assumed it 
> was an unsupported command in 'cdrecord'  Upgrading the kernel didn't help.
> 
> -Eric.
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > No flames,  I've stoped using Linux to burn.  It was strange.  I could burn
> > in RedHAt 7.0 but wout
> > get SCSI timeout errors in 7.1.  I had to dual boot to burn.  I decided to
> > just make iso images in Linux and burn in Windows.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: esoteric at denali.atlnet.com [mailto:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:29 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> > Subject: [ale] speaking of cdrs...
> > 
> > 
> > While were on the subject of cdrs...
> > 
> > I've had a Philips cdr working fine for a while now.  Of lately though,
> > when I attempt to burn a cd, it locks my box up with a kernel panic.
> > I'm suspecting maybe the drive's gone bad on me.  Anyone else had any
> > experiences with a cdr going bad?  Problem is, I've upgraded kernels as
> > well as dists. since I burned last, so I don't know whether it's a
> > kernel issue, dists. issue or just plain bad hardware.
> > 
> > Any info on similar experiences would be appreciated.  Or, experiences
> > with drives going bad that don't have the same (drastic) effect....
> > 
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> > 
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> > that
> > are not made adequately clear in the technical documentation available."
> > - David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research
> > - http://www.avirubin.com/passport
> > 
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