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Did you try using just CD-record at a console? What type of CD-drive is it? -- noah silva On Sun, 2002年05月12日 at 11:14, George Langford wrote: > Hello fellow PLUGgers ! > > A vexing problem is preventing my Linux PC from being useful. > > I can set up a CD-burn with XCDRoast and initiate the burn > just fine. Problem arises when the CDWriter attempts to > fixate the CD. The burn itself goes smoothly at 12X - the > drive runs at a moderate but steady speed. When the fixation > process starts, the drive hunts up & down for a happy speed, > but after several minutes the NumLock & CapsLock LED's start > blinking, and all I can do is press the "eject" button on > the drive - which ejects just fine - and then press the reset > button on the PC - no combination of keystrokes has any effect > and the cursor is nowhere to be seen, so the mouse is also > frozen. This has happened with three CD-disks, two of them > with the same setup but different disk makers. When I look > at the CD, I can see that it has indeed been burned, but it's > just a coaster now. > > The only error message received during the burn process is > that the S/W does not like the starting position (0) returned > by the drive and substitutes -150 instead. The CD is still > recognized by the BIOS Autodetect only when I leave the Linux > boot floppy in the drive during bootup. > > Perhaps one of you knows where this problem arises ... > > Best regards, > George Langford > amenex@amenex.com > http://www.amenex.com/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug