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

William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Wed Dec 26 13:43:03 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >   <snip>

> > Do an lsmod and see if you see sg, maybe sd_mod, scsi_mod, ide_cd.
> > Look at /etc/modules.conf (I think that's it - thngs changed in the last
> > decade or so).
> >   
> scsi_mod              133069  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,usb_storage
> ide_cd                 40033  0
> cdrom                  36705  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
> 
> (also a plain-old cdrom installed via IDE (internal) on this server).
> 
> And no such animal as a modules.conf anywhere on the system (per locate 
> modules.conf)

modprobe*

> > Try just reading a cd first. Does the device have any king od "write
> > protect" switch?
> >   
> Will try the reading.  No write protect switch.  This CDRW was on a 
> Win2000 system whose board started overheating and crashing.  So it was 
> working with Veritas just 2 weeks ago.
> > Use cdrecord with some verbosity flags to get some clues. 
> And I need clues to help me RTFM.  Lot there ASSuMEing already knowing 
> about SCSI and CD devices...

OK. CentOS 4.x or 5.x? I'll try to help if I can. Only diff would be the
device reported. I don't have usb. But with cdrecord, only the low-level
drivers would change. All the sg* interface stuff would be the same.

> ><snip>

> > Use cdrecord to print some of the header info of the blank disc you're
> > trying to write. You'll need to RTFM - I don't have it in front of me
> > ATM.
> >   
> <snip>

> > It sound like you'll need to leave the comfy confines of the GUI room to
> > solve this one.
> Would if I could get more out of RTFM.

I'll try to help.

> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill




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