Re: Ancient hardware part 2

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Friday 23 November 2001 05:41 am, you spewed:
> --- Stephen Walton <swalton sunspot csun edu> wrote:
> > Well, I have booted my old 486 VLB (VESA) system from the RedHat
> > install floppy and installed the BusLogic SCSI driver at the
> > appropriate point. I specified "Debug" as an optional parameter for
> > the driver. This system has a Yamaha CDR100 CD-R as SCSI ID 6.  The
> > driver installs, finds the BusLogic BT-445C card, finds the two hard
> > disks, tape drive, and CD-ROM. It assigns /dev/sr0 to the CD-ROM as
> > expected. The installation procedure shows the "Initializing CD-ROM"
> > box, then goes back to the question about where one's CD-ROM is
> > located (SCSI or Other being the two choices).
> >
> > I suspect the driver isn't waiting long enough for the CDR100, as the
> > light on it is still flashing when the install procuedure apparently
> > decides it isn't responding.  Any more ideas?
>
> Hello
>      It looks like your cdrom is not seeing the cd media.
>
> Is the cd homemade?, that is a CDR or a CDRW?
>
> I looked up your drive: 4X read, 1X/2X write.
> A normal cdrom needs to be at least 12x to read cdr's (tested by me)
>
> A cdwriter "should" be able to read a CDR disk, and a CDRW disk.
> I have had lots of problems with CDRW media.
>
> Can you see this cd under DOS?, how about a "regular" CD?

I had an old NEC 3X that read CDR just fine. But it always failed to read 
CDRW. After much searching I found CDRW was a problem for a lot of old CD 
drives, especially SCSI.

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