Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story...
I have an ASUS L5800C. I use kernel 2.4.26 and after some upgrade in debian sid I lost automatic loading of the ide-scsi module. But, since cdrecord can address atapi drives now, that was not really a problem. After some time, I noticed that I couldn't burn cds in dao mode. I could only burn them in tao mode. I was going to sort that out some other time. That time came when I wanted to burn a video cd and k3b could only do that in dao mode. I tried, but the burning process hangs at 'burned 1 Mb / many Mbs' messages. It starts the burning process, but hangs at the first Mb. After a minute or so, the burning process is aborted with a strange error (unknown to k3b) which I don't recall literally and (obviously, as we will see) can't reproduce now. I fidgeted around with unloading the ide-cd/cdrom modules and loading the ide-scsi module. It started burning. It hanged at 1 Mb again, but after a minute it continued with the rest. Since it was only a test, I aborted the burning process with Ctrl-C (it was a cdrecord burn, not k3b). So far, so good. Later, having finished my video cd images, I tried again with k3b and it hanged at 1 Mb. I tried erasing the cdrw again, but cdrecord told me there was no medium inserted. I tried reloading the ide-scsi modules, then the ide-cd/cdrom modules, but to no avail. I tried another cdrw disk, nothing. I tried mounting a cdrom, nothing. I tried playing an audio cd, nothing. I tried in windows, nothing. I even tried (nice feature on my laptop) to power off the machine, touch that nice little audio cd button, inserting an audio cd and pressing the play button. This way, I can normally play audio cds while my laptop remains powered down. But now, not even this hardware application is able to determine the fact that there _is_ a cd inserted. The drive is dead. The reason I think it _might_ be linux related is the fact that it died when I was trying to let it burn in dao mode: reloading different modules and such. Could this be? When I have replaced the drive, I certainly don't want to experience this again. What is the status of atapi support in cdrecord and cdrdao and 2.4.26: should it be able to write in dao mode to all drives? If so, maybe my drive was faulty for some time, now... Thanks, David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
