Re: [PLUG] CDWriter hangs the computer during fixation

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Did you try using just CD-record at a console?  What type of CD-drive is
it?

 -- noah silva

On Sun, 2002-05-12 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/
> 
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