From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 14:30:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7389537B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E318543EC2 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <2002122422303200300lonjje>; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:30:32 +0000 Message-ID: <3E08E006.4070205@mac.com> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:30:30 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord problems: too many coasters References: <3E0794B1.8030409@mac.com> <20021224142050.A1724@gicco.homeip.net> <3E08A89A.2090001@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote: > It's an older drive. > > cd0: Removable Worm SCSI-2 device > cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers > cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records] > > It *has* worked but for audio CDs, just once. > HMm, looking around on Google for info on this drive's mechanism brings me *lots* of bad news. Looks like the $20 I paid for it on eBay might gave been too much after all. I couldn't have found this out before I bought it, since the seller didn't know what the internals were, but I know better now. It seems to work OK for data CDs, though. How annoying. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 "I'd love to go out with you, but the man on television told me to stay tuned." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message