On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:18, Marc Olivier wrote:
> I typed in stuff, got my Zip drive back, tried a special command "cdrecord 
> -scanbus". Thought I got my CD-RW, and kept my Zip drive this time. Tried to 
> burn stuff from Zip drive onto CD RW using somethng called K3b. I saw the 
> CR-RW lights come on, and a application status message saying data 
> successfully burned or something. I then tried to pull out the data, and 
> cannot do it using any application. Gave up, shut off system.

Some CD-burning software is set to "dummy" mode by default.  This is
just a test mode (to ensure your system is fast enough to handle the
burn procedure), and doesn't actually write anything to the disc.

You should make sure the burning software is in a real write mode...

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