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is there anyway to get rewritable cds to read in linux?  i'm running red
hat 6.1 with the version of the kernel that they released.  i have a ricoh
mp6200s burner on an intio scsi adapter.

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We have such a system set up at work. No worries.

Not all CDROMs can read RW disks though - so be careful.

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Dave Blake

I've found, with my Mitsumi CDR4802TE and various CDRW disks
that, although the CD burner can read the CDRW volumes, there
is a lot of variance in which other CDROM (and audio CD) drives
can read the CDRW volumes. An audio CD I created on CDRW could
only be read on the Mitsumi CDR, and my stereo CD player; it
could not be read by either of my data CD-ROM drives or by
my Sony Diskman.

However, I have not had any problems with CDR disks; they seem
to be readable in all drives.

My guess is that a large number of CD drives are sensitive to
the specifics of CDRW media, and sometimes cannot cope with
the disk itself.

Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')

Correct.  The reflectivity of CDRW media is much less than a Red Book
manufactured CD, or an Orange Book CD-R.  Older CD-ROM drives, and
audio CD players don't get a strong enough RF signal from their
photodiode to read the discs.

Newer CD-ROM drives (tagged as being "MultiRead-compatible") have an
automatic gain control in their front-end circuitry, and can read the
weaker signal from a CD-RW (although not always at the same speed as a
manufactured or CD-R disc).

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