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

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Dec 26 01:45:43 UTC 2007


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





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