Thanks to all who offered help on getting my Yamaha CDR400tx (1.0d) CD recorder working, especially to Nathan Norman who pointed me to http://www.shop.de/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl where I discovered that cdwrite-2.0 does not support the CDR400tx but that cdrecord-1.5 does.
There does not seem to be a Debian package for cdrecord (is someone working on this?) so I built it from the source at ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/cdrecord.tar.gz and it works great! I do seem to have a reliability issue with some fairly cheap green on gold CDRs. (US$4 ea @ qty 100 with a black label thermally printed on them by a local company -- supposed to be Sony CDRs, but they were totally blank before being printed). The cdrom drives on a couple of our UNIX boxes can't seem to reliably mount them if they are written at 4X, but (so far, at least) they seem to be OK if written at 1X or 2X. Does write speed affect the quality of the CDR? Also, are gold on gold CDRs supposed to be better? I found what I think is a pretty good deal on some HP C4432A gold on gold CDRs at CompUSA -- qty 25 for US$70 minus US$20 rebate (limit two on the rebate). Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
