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Re: CD-RW failure to initialize

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On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:01:46 UTC, "yorkie" 
<kevh@yorkie.dabsolLL.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:35:26 UTC, "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> 
> wrote:
> 
> Ivan,
> 
> > > > Why not just zip uo the boot partition (zip -9rS) and then copy it to 
> > > > a USB stick?
> > > 
> > > The USB package is, hopefully, part of the v4.51 upgrade 
> > > disk set.
> > > Until I can install this upgrade I don't have access to USB 
> > > unless I
> > > zip it up and transfer the zip file to a  FAT 16  drive and 
> > > save to CDRW
> > > from there.  I presume if zipped with paths it will preserve
> > > the long
> > > file names within the zip structure and Win 98 won't 
> > > truncate any.
> > > 
> > > However, that is not getting me to the nub of the problem of
> > > why
> > > the Warp system is not abling the Writer as it once did.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > snip << 
> > > 
> > 
> > The zip file should not have problems, even in DOS, as long as its 
> > name follows the 8.3 convention.
> 
> Yeah, it might have to come to this.  I'll have to do a test
> burn under
> Win 98 to make sure it's not having seeing problems.
>  

The only problem you might encounter with win 98 is the size of the CD
- I'm not sure it can cope with the 700 MB CDs.

> > As to why the drive isn't being enabled - could it have died?  They 
> > don't last for ever. 
> 
> Tried six others, same result.
> 
> > Another possibility if your motherboard has an IDE header is to use an
> > IDE CDRW drive.  That would need ASPIROUT.SYS and the Dani drivers but
> > should work and would do what you want.
> 
> Yes it certainly does but it is not ulilised as it is an all
> SCSI system.
> 

My two servers have 4 SCSI hot swap hard drives each yet the CD is 
connected to the IDE header and I've never encountered any problems 
with that.


ivan
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CD-RW failure to initialize "yorkie" <kevh@yorkie.dabsolLL.co.uk> - 2011-07-09 07:52 -0500
  Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2011-07-09 14:35 +0000
    Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "yorkie" <kevh@yorkie.dabsolLL.co.uk> - 2011-07-16 04:46 -0500
      Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2011-07-17 08:35 +0000
        Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "yorkie" <kevh@yorkie.dabsolLL.co.uk> - 2011-07-17 10:01 -0500
          Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2011-07-17 19:00 +0000
            Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "yorkie" <kevh@yorkie.dabsolLL.co.uk> - 2011-07-30 15:19 -0500
              Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2011-07-31 09:40 +0000
              Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2011-07-31 14:56 +0000
                Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2011-08-01 09:22 +0000
                Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2011-08-01 19:40 +0000
                Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2011-08-02 15:14 +0000
                Re: CD-RW failure to initialize Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 20:10 -0700
  Re: CD-RW failure to initialize johnsuth@nospam.com.au - 2011-07-10 01:14 +0000
    Re: CD-RW failure to initialize "yorkie" <kevh@yorkie.dabsolLL.co.uk> - 2011-07-16 04:46 -0500

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