Hello,

I am running Solaris 9 on a Sun Blade 100. I have connected a new
Addonics AEPDVRW248UM via the supplied USB cable.

I am able to read CDs fine but when I attempt to write to a CD-R I
invariably get this failure: "Writing track 1...failed.".

$ mkisofs -r /home/des 2>/dev/null | cdrw -i
Looking for CD devices...
Initializing device...done.
Writing track 1...failed.
done.
Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.

// Or, using a file created earlier with mkisofs and running
// in simulated mode:

$ cdrw -S -v -i bkup.iso
Looking for CD devices...
Initializing device(Simulation mode)...done.
Writing track 1...failed.
done.
Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.

Again, I can read disks but I can not write disks. As a further test, I
moved the Addonics drive to a laptop running Win2K. On that system I
can read *and* write CDs with no problem whatsoever. But, I got this
drive specifically for my Sun Blade...

Has anyone managed to get an Addonics drive to write disks?




// More details ===>


// Solaris finds the drive
$ cdrw -l
Looking for CD devices...
Node Connected Device Device type
---------------------+--------------------------------+-----------------
cdrom1 | HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241N 0H33 | CD Reader/Writer


// Solaris finds the media:
$ cdrw -d cdrom1 -M
Device : HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241N
Firmware : Rev. 0H33 (0123456789AB)
Media is blank


// Solaris is unable to set write speed
$ cdrw -i -d cdrom1 -p 8 -S /home/des/bkup.iso
Initializing device(Simulation mode)...done.
Unable to set speed.

Thank you for your time.
--
Doug
d e s ( a t ) i n d i a n c h i e f d o t c o m

In article <J%vOc.186413$IQ4.9721@attbi_s02>,
Doug Smith <NoSpam@NoSpamDomain.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am running Solaris 9 on a Sun Blade 100. I have connected a new
>Addonics AEPDVRW248UM via the supplied USB cable.
>
>I am able to read CDs fine but when I attempt to write to a CD-R I
>invariably get this failure: "Writing track 1...failed.".
>
>$ mkisofs -r /home/des 2>/dev/null | cdrw -i
>Looking for CD devices...
>Initializing device...done.
>Writing track 1...failed.
>done.
>Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.

In case you have problems, it is a real bad idea to use a program
that does not give you error messages (like cdrw).

Use cdrecord instead.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php


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