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#1 2006-06-02 20:00:26

Snowman
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Old CD-drive don't detect RW CD's [SOLVED]

I have an old i586 box and I would like to install Arch on it (I'm posting here because it's not really i586 related). I got an i586 iso and burned it on a Memorex brand CD-RW. The problem is the old CD-drive doesn't detect the CD. The old CD-drive works, it detected a music CD. The CD seems fine as I could mount it on my laptop and see the files on it.  I guess that the old CD-drive have problem detecting RW CD's. Would using another brand or using a CD-R help? Any ideas?

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#2 2006-06-05 04:32:48

byte
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Re: Old CD-drive don't detect RW CD's [SOLVED]

Try a CD-R. From my experience you could get problems with CD-RWs in anything older than 16x or 24x drives.


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#3 2006-06-05 05:56:39

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Re: Old CD-drive don't detect RW CD's [SOLVED]

Or you could try an old 1-4X CDRW, although many modern drives would refuse to burn it.


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#4 2006-06-05 06:54:48

Mr Green
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Re: Old CD-drive don't detect RW CD's [SOLVED]

speed if you can burn it slower may work.... if not try a different way to load it ...

network ... floppy (j/k) or switch hd's, via usb etc....

HTH


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#5 2006-06-06 00:00:53

Snowman
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Re: Old CD-drive don't detect RW CD's [SOLVED]

scarecrow: Actually it was a 1-4x CD-RW. wink

I tried with a  CD-R with 4x burning speed and "Mode2" for data mode and it works. The CD gets detected but doesn't boot. It could be because of the low RAM (16MB). I have another box with ~40MB RAM. I'll try with that one later. Or maybe with floppies (if there are i586 floppies).

Thanks for the input. big_smile

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#6 2006-06-06 07:34:17

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Re: Old CD-drive don't detect RW CD's [SOLVED]

On an old thinkpad I had to use a boot floppy to start DSL ... no CDrom boot up

of course if you can get bootloader in then should be no problem


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