Hi Don

In article ,
"Don{ald} O. Woodall" wrote:

>      Lovely, it is Sunday and a Good News messenger shows up.

:)

>      CDRecord is a Unix app.  Unless one is an esoteric Unix
> Gearhead, there there is no discernable help there.

:) Well, its not quite _that_ bad. Though once I worked out most of the
options I use, I carefully wrote them into batch files, since I'm sure
to have forgotten them by the time I want to use them...

> >Not in my experience. When I first started using them, I wasn't sure
> >whether new disks should be blanked or not, so I did blank them.
> >I've not lost one yet.
> 
>      I like all this good news.

I'm still puzzled as to why blanking a new RW disk should cause you not to
be able to use it. I use quite a lot of RWs, simply because I have
several CDs that get rewritten often. I would have been most unhappy if
I'd started losing the media at the rate you describe.

>      I will appropriate the above, remold it to fit me, and
> see what kind of results I get.

You're welcome, though I don't see that (other than ejecting the disk
at the end of the blanking cycle and trapping a non-zero errorlevel
return) that you're doing anything much different.

>      SCSI!  IDE is against my religion.

:( It used to be against mine as well. However, the sort of storage
that I use now precludes me using SCSI hard drives. And when I install
my new DVD burner, I will be all IDE. This machine uses an SATA drive,
the other PATA stuff. Pity, but I simply can't afford the amount of
drive space I need using SCSI anymore.

>      Also, FYI
> 
> HBA ID LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REV  SYNC WIDE INI13  CYL/ HD/SEC ---
> -- --- -------  ---------------- ---  ---- ---- ----- ------------
>  0  15  0  IBM      DDRS-34560D      DC1B 40.0  16   BOOT  555/255/63
>  0  14  0  SEAGATE  ST336607LW       0007 40.0  16   81h  1024/255/63
>  0  13  0  SEAGATE  ST173404LW       0004 40.0  16   82h  1024/255/63
>  0   7  0  LSILogic 53C875           0055 40.0  16
>  1   0  0  PLEXTOR  CD-ROM PX-32TS   1.03        8   BOOT   80/  2/36
>  1   1  0  PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-820T   1.08
>  1   2  0  PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-W1210S 1.01
>  1   3  0  PLEXTOR  CD-ROM PX-32TS   1.02
>  1   7  0  LSILOGIC 53C875           0055 40.0  16
>  2   7  0  LSILOGIC 53C875           0004 40.0  16

Same SCSI HA that I use (an Ausus model). I did have some problems with
CDRecord using some of the SYM8XX.ADD drivers I've used. Though I don't
think those problems could ever cause quite such a specific problem as
the one you have - from memory I got some errors on SCSI execution
commands. I also had some very strange results when I had both the
53C875 and a smaller (53C810A?) based (narrow) HA in the same box. I
lost the serial ports and had some other strange faults under those
circumstances...

paul.

-- 
paulm{at}waitrose.com
Marwick Computer Services - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK
OS/2, LAN and general Computer Consultants



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