Mike McCarty wrote:
Norm wrote:
My HL-DT-ST CD RW GCE-8240B drive will not write to a disk. The box
is a dual boot and when it is in its windoze configuration the drive
does write correctly. FC6 can read data on a disk in the drive but
it refuses to read a blank disk I have tried using both K3b and
x-CD-Roast
I'm not sure what you mean by "it refuses to read a blank disc". Can
you elaborate? IOW, please state something like
"When I do xyz, I expect pdq to happen, but what I see is foo."
You might include any error messages.
Be sure to include information about what a "blank disc" is. Is this
a R/W which you erased in some manner? A fresh recordable? Or what?
with similar results, Does Linux have a hardware issue with this
drive, the only other thought I have is my cd drive is a slave on the
same controller that my DVD drive is a master on and possibly
switching them may be the answer. Before I make the switch I would
like to confirm that the problem is not a Linux compatibility issue.
Mike
After a bit of checking I found the problem, a new bundle of CDs I just
bought have a large percentage of unseable CDs in the mix. This batch
is not as bad as one bundle I bought that ran to over 75 % bad. I could
understand a few bad CDs in an economy bundle but the number of dud CD I
find in a premium brand is much higher than I would expect.
