CD-Rom Problems

[karl larsen]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 11.03.2005 schrieb karl larsen um 0:09:
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>>>Please provide following information:
>>>a) uname -r
>>>b) cat /proc/cmdline
>>>c) rpm -q cdrecord
>>>d) egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/cdrecord.conf
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>>a) 2.6.5-1.358
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>Not only to get cdrecord act properly I highly recommend to upgrade to
>the latest kernel. 2.6.10-1.770_FC2 is the current one. It has a lot of
>improvements and fixes security issues.
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    Hi Alexander, I'm not worried about security, I'm worried about 
making cd-rom's.

>>b)  ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
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>Ok, wanted to be sure you don't use ide-scsi.
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>>c)  cdrecord-2.01-0.a27.3
>>d)  CDR_DEVICE=cdrom
>>CDR_SPEED=12
>>CDR_FIFOSIZE=4m
>>cdrom=          ATAPI:1,0,0
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>You could try instead:
>cdrom=        /dev/hdX        -1      -1      
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>(where hdX is the IDE drive name)
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    I did that and IT WORKED! Thanks and boy there is nothing anywhere 
that has that fix in print! I made the change and tried the same file 
cw.iso and it made a perfect cd-rom. And what it did makes sense.

72 karl k5di

>Alexander
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