CD Coasters (was: Never ceases to amaze)

[Jim Herrmann]

I have an older HP burner that always worked great under linux.  It's 
still on my wife's linux machine.  My newer TDK drive is the one that 
went bad.

Peace,
Jim

Brian Kelsay wrote:

>I think your problem is the HP Burner.  I've had tons of problems on the
>three or four I have worked on.   One a coworker tried under Linux would not
>work at all and the others under Windows 98/2k/xp had driver problems,
>burner software problems, burned coasters everthing.   The only way to make
>them work even part of the time was to use the HP burning software that came
>w/ the drive and load all three or four drivers in a specific order.
>Brian
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles Steinkuehler"
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>>>Guess I'm no help here!  ;-)
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>>I've gotten linux to burn coasters:
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>>RedHat 8
>>Asus A7N8X MoBo
>>2x IBM 80 Gig IDE drives (setup as master...one on each IDE port) RAID-1
>>16x HP 9700 CD Burner (setup as slave on secondary IDE port)
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>>I suspect the problem is the burner and the IDE RAID drives being on the
>>same bus.  I have since moved the burner to a Promise PCI IDE
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