Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

hdc=ide-scsi? I'm quite desperate when it comes to burning CD's on my system. Please can anybody assist in tackling this problem? Thanks. Regards, Gerard -- G.C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: +31-(0)774742493, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: [...] By the way, I use grub as boot-loader. In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst I added hdc=scsi at the end of the following line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro Should that perhaps be hdc=ide-scsi

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: Dear debian-user, As a Linux user I experience serious trouble writing CD-RW's. Let me give some insight info regarding my system (Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" rev0a (kernel 2.4.27)): The command 'cdrecord -v -scanbus&#

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Charlie wrote: . I use only Lite-On CD/DVD burners, internal and USB external, in and plugged in, on desktops and laptops, and they work with Linux. Have always done, so when on a good thing, I stick to it. But in Debian they don't work with the 2.4xxx kernel with K3B, and scsi em

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: .. My CD-burner is: Lite-On LTR48126S (I'm not at home so I'm guessing, but it is a pretty good guess) After doing all the configurations listed below this burner has worked perfectly!! If I should write a checklist on what I needed to fix, it would be: - SCSI

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Mike McCarty wrote: G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: . K3b is a graphical interface to cdrecord which makes creating CDROMs much easier than the command line interface. . Mike, Okay, I use xcdroast also a pretty convenient graphical interface to cdrecord! Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Debian users, Thanks for all the advice, but unfortunately it didn't help much, sorry! I'm slightly disappointed that such a basic tool, like burning CD's, with Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge rev0a (kernel 2.4.27)is so impenetrable. The Lite-on LTR-24102B has been tested on a Windows-XP machine an

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Mike McCarty wrote: . Are you using previously written CDROMs? There is apparently a problem with erasure of previously recorded CDROMs and cdrecord, which I saw discussed on Fedora Core List. IIRC, cdrecord allows one to erase and do some writing with on command, but this fails. If one doe