[linux-help] Re: CD-ROM errors

[Pankratz Matt <MPankratz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cravens,

I've seen this happen in a Windows environment.

As best as I can tell it has to do with multi-session CDs.  If data is
written to the media in multiple sessions many older (I had an 8X IDE that
did this) can not read the cd.

As for fixes...I'd either re-burn the CD as a single session, or spend the
30 bucks for a 30X+ Multi-Read CDROM.

Of course, this may not have anything to do with what you're asking about,
but it jarred something in my brain...

Matt Pankratz
Web Engineer
John Deere
Special Technologies


-----Original Message-----
From: Carl D Cravens [mailto:raven@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:52 AM
To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [linux-help] CD-ROM errors


I'm having trouble with a CD-ROM drive and wondered if anybody had any
insights. 

This drive is fairly new and I'm thinking that it's a "generic" 6x I got
at CompUSA cheap.  (I think it's a Panasonic, but I can't tell without
removing the drive from this 24x7 server.)  It's a standard IDE and it's
worked fine in my wife's Windows box for a few months.  

I recently installed it in my Linux server to do an upgrade (it's about
time I moved to Debian 2.1) and I get all kinds of read errors on the
console while trying to read from it.  It might get fifty meg just fine
and then starts getting driver-level errors.  I thought it might be the
CD's I'd burned on the funky Sony drive at work which gave me all kinds of
trouble when I first got it, so I ordered new copies from Linux Mall to be
sure... while I seem to get far fewer with the new CD's, I still get
errors. 

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