Hi Julian, Briliant! Thanks. I'll let you know my millage with cdrdao when I try it, and you? BTW QSI = Quanta Storage Inc. = <http://www.qsinc.com.tw/> And I'll file a bug. Regards, Morgan.
Julian Mayer wrote:
hello morgan
Hmm. I had a quick look down your cdrecord outputs and noticed you're using the same brand of writer as me: QSI. Check out their web site - you wont be able to unless you're running windoze! They're in Taiwan and don't apparently even bother to release drivers for their products, but just rely on the windoze stock. So, my very strong suspicion is that the problem is with the drive.
well the problem is not really with the drive, if it works in windows (and maybe cdrdao, see below), but with cdrecord
My drive is reported as "QSI DVD/CDRW SBW-081 NXC5", I googled and got little, but this <http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2002-Nov/0470.html> although in German (anybody read German?) it seemed to suggest the same problem with a suse distro.
i read and write german ;)
the thread only comes to the conclusion that blanking the CD-RWs doesn't work with these drives using "cdrecord" but it may work using "cdrdao".
i definitely will try that!
Does anybody have any comments on QSI drives not blanking CDRW???
Why not start a bug, it might help confirm if the drives are junk!
could you file a bug? (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/)
we shouldn't bother the author of cdrecord since he doesn't like the modified cdrecord distributed with redhat/fedora, so this seems like redhat's problem...
And, thanks for cc'ing me in as I've got the list on 'pause' at the moment.
me too ;)
thanks, julian
-- Morgan Read <mailto:mstuffATplDOTnet>
