[luau] trouble with cdrw

[R. Scott Belford]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 12:13 PM, MonMotha wrote:

> Be warned that I believe all Sony burners are shipping with DRM now.  
> So if you're an anti-DRM advocate, keep this in mind.

I should have.  They are for a church/school, so I went with bargain.  A 
few dollars more would have bought a Lite-on and perhaps much less 
trouble.  Good advice.

>
> You can try setting the BIOS to CD or NONE.  Basically all you need to 
> do is get the BIOS to shut up.  Linux does it's own probing of the bus 
> and can normally reliably detect anything you throw at it (assuming 
> it's not broken or non-standard, which these Sony drives may not be).

If I had not bought these as the only drives, then perhaps I would.  
They need to be able to boot from these if they ever want to install 
another distro.  As it stands, I just can't boot from them.  I had 
thought about making boot floppies, but, I don't want these people to 
get overwhelmed.  I haven't tried to boot from one with a Bios setting 
of None.  I think I will.  Otherwise, these are likely heading towards 
an RMA.

thanks

scott