CDRW: cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:32PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> 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?

Has this brand/model of media ever worked on this particular drive?
Some media simply doesn't work with some drives.  Often a firmware
update can fix that, but not always.  I have had some 8x media that I
simply can't get the drive to accept as more than 4x media (dvd-r media
that is).  I have had cases where updating the firmware made the drive
suddenly like some media it didn't like before.

Also remember that CD-RW comes in 3 types, and some drives can't do some
types.  There is CD-RW (1x to 4x), CD-RW high speed (4x to 10x) and
CD-RW ultra (10x and up). CD-R should just work, unless the firmware
really doesn't like a certain type of CD-R dye.

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Len Sorensen
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