CD-RW dosen't blank (was Re: CD burning doesn't work - scsi emulation?..)

[Morgan Read]

Hi Julian,
Briliant! Thanks.
I'll let you know my millage with cdrdao when I try it, and you?
BTW QSI = Quanta Storage Inc. = <http://www.qsinc.com.tw/>
And I'll file a bug.
Regards,
Morgan.

Julian Mayer wrote:
> 
> hello morgan
> 
>> Hmm.  I had a quick look down your cdrecord outputs and noticed you're 
>> using the same brand of writer as me: QSI.  Check out their web site - 
>> you wont be able to unless you're running windoze!  They're in Taiwan 
>> and don't apparently even bother to release drivers for their 
>> products, but just rely on the windoze stock.  So, my very strong 
>> suspicion is that the problem is with the drive.
> 
> well the problem is not really with the drive, if it works in windows 
> (and maybe cdrdao, see below), but with cdrecord
> 
>>
>> My drive is reported as "QSI DVD/CDRW SBW-081 NXC5", I googled and got 
>> little, but this 
>> <http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2002-Nov/0470.html> although 
>> in German (anybody read German?) it seemed to suggest the same problem 
>> with a suse distro.
> 
> 
> i read and write german ;)
> the thread only comes to the conclusion that blanking the CD-RWs doesn't 
> work with these drives using "cdrecord" but it may work using "cdrdao".
> i definitely will try that!
> 
>> Does anybody have any comments on QSI drives not blanking CDRW???
>>
>> Why not start a bug, it might help confirm if the drives are junk!
> 
> could you file a bug? (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/)
> we shouldn't bother the author of cdrecord since he doesn't like the 
> modified cdrecord distributed with redhat/fedora, so this seems like 
> redhat's problem...
> 
>>
>> And, thanks for cc'ing me in as I've got the list on 'pause' at the 
>> moment.
> 
> me too ;)
> 
>>
> 
> thanks, julian
> 

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