From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 6:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta03.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6421B37B72A for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sysmach.com) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta03.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BD6490ED for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:24:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 5082036F9; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:24:39 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:24:39 -0800 (PST) From: Kyle To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help: Burning a cd with burncd and Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A Reply-To: freebsd@sysmach.com X-Originating-Ip: [204.196.181.133] Message-Id: <20010320142439.5082036F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i dont know much about plextors, but here is what i can tell you. i had trouble booting from the 639meg .iso i downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org The problem is, all i did was a copy and paste , thinking that it would copy everything. and it did, but i later realized that i should have burned it as a BOOTABLE IMAGE, and not just copy it. maybe you will learn something out of this. good luck --- Eric Jacoboni > wrote: >>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Strömbergson writes: > >>> Mine is the previous model : 12/10/32A. But, it's a good idea to test >>> first with CD-RW, not with CD-R... > >Joachim> Apart from not wasting that many empty cd:s? > >Only for that : to test without wasting too much CD-R ;-) > >Joachim> Neiter FreeBSD nor Windows can open/read/access any CD >Joachim> created in FreeBSD. The player chews on the CD for a while >Joachim> and then ejects it. > >Gosh... > >>> And, BTW, have you try to burn a CD under Windows? > >Joachim> Yes. Several. ISO-s. > >>> If it runs ok with another OS, try to change its place in the ATA >>> chain: try to swap the DVD and the Plextor (be careful to change the >>> rear bridges, too). > >Joachim> I have tried that, but nothing of that kind seems to work. >Joachim> Help?! > >I'm afraid i have burned all my bullets... Have you tried to play with >the -s option of burncd ? My Plextor fails to death last week, it was >still covered by warranty so Plextor sent me another drive : i've just >plug it, test it and all was ok. It's a 10/12/32, i don't think there >is a difference with burn process as yours is a 10/12 too > >Anyway, i hope someone here, much more aware of the internals of >burncd, will help you >-- >Éric Jacoboni, né il y a 1288404658 secondes. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _____________________________________________________________ Systems at MACHSPEED!! http://sysmach.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message