[CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Frank Cox wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500
>>>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive.
>>> No change.
>>> 
>>> The drive is the coffee mug tray style. so even opening the plastic 
>>> housing for the drive does not let me 'see' the sensor, but I used a lot 
>>> of canned air and no change in behaviour....
>>> 
>>> Perhaps I have to go out to the drug store and buy one of those drive lens 
>>> cleaner disks?
>>> 
>> 
>> Have you tried removing/reseating the data cable on both ends? 
> USB. I thought I mentioned that....
>
>> I've seen this work a handful of times. Also, SCSI or other? If SCSI, is it 
>> properly terminated, and with the correct ID? I once replaced a SCSI hard 
>> drive, and due to some technical change that completely baffled me, using 
>> the same cable, and ensuring IDs were all correct (unchanged), could not 
>> get the system to properly boot? In the end, a colleague with similar 
>> knowledge ended up relocating the SCSI terminator on the cable itself. No 
>> reason why it needed to be relocated, but that solved the problem.
> Yeah if those SCSI terminators get a little dirty ;)
>> Try cabling and see what happens... 
>
> Using 2.0 cables. Of course the server is an old Compaq SFF that only 
> supports USB 1.1

What do the logs say about any possible USB errors?  How about tail -f 
path_to_log_file and unplugged/replugging to see what the active messages 
are?

Scott

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