On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:11:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:59:59 -0500
>     From:        Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
>     Message-ID:  <20031007175959.GA23274@olib.org>
> 
>   | The header output says:
> 
> All that looks fairly reasonable, and suggests that cdrecord believes
> it is working correctly.
> 
> It also suggests that the drive is not toast, as it is at least able
> to find the manufacturer and size of the blank CD you inserted.

It's also able to tell the difference between a CD-R blank and having a
CD-RW or CD in it.  (It does not recognize the latter two, but a CD-R,
after some struggling, makes the "Disc" light turn a constant green.)

I seem to recall that it was much quicker to accept media in the past...


> Another test you can do, to determine if the write is happening at all,
> is to try to re-burn one of the CDs that you have already (tried to) burn.

I believe that that *was* with a CD-R that I'd tried before, in fact.

I'm trying again just for reference, though.


> If nothing every got written, that would "work" again.   On the other hand,
> if the write got somewhere, then the 2nd attempt will fail.

It had to reload the media, but otherwise appears to be doing okay with it.


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