CDRW: cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 02:31, Jason Spiro wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Let me know please anyone had a similar problem, or, better, just the
> > solution ;)

That was mine idea: if anybody had a similar problem and was able to solve it 
- let them report. Googling shows that many indeed had a similar problem. I 
did not want to post all detailed technical information generated by various 
commands because.. problem is probably not in these programs or how I use 
them. Might be a hardware problem. How however could I learn that it is 
indeed a hardware problem?

> Did you try using different software (e.g. cdrdao) or a different OS
> (e.g. Windows or Ubuntu LiveCD)? Does CD burning work from there?

As I wrote, except of cdrecord, I did try to use cdrskin on Linux. After your 
suggestion I was eager to try something else, cdrdao, which installed (from 
compilation) without problems. All these 3 programs behave in a similar way: 
they recognize the drive, its version, but complain that there is no CD 
inside. While a writable CD is obviously there (and I try two blank CD of two 
different companies, both types I was able to use in the past on different 
Linux machines).

Yes, I did try right now on Windows XP as well, after installing a free CD 
burner, CDBurnerXPPro 3. It does recognize the CD drive properly (knows its 
version) but.. also complains that there is no CD inside ;(

Hence, very likely a sort of hardware problem? But I do not need to add that 
reading CDs works fine?

> Do you know by any chance: Does the drive work OK in other machines?

Nowhere around to check that.

Kind regards,
zb.
P.s.: To these who know me on this list and perhaps read this: I got a new 
job, a good one! In.. Pickring. I moved already there. Thats why I was able 
to spend 40 $ on a new CD burner ;))) The case itsels is interesting. I am 
doing moving from Windows servers to Linux(!) The company owner is a very 
bright person and uses (occasionally rather) Linux as well, and plans to move 
entire company operations to Linux. My work is a sort of programming of web 
site (HTML, JavaScript, a quite advanced one, rather) combined with Linux 
servers administration, with programming on the server side (PHP + JSP), and 
simply learning a lot of new things. In particular Postgres (my idea, though 
it would be easier to me to use MySQL) but also how the maps displayed on the 
web (Google Maps, for instance) are produced. The company deals with maps on 
the web and an expanding though far from saturation market related to the use 
of maps on the web.

> Kind regards,
> Jason
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