I have a LITE-ON 48x24x48 CDRW. I have WinXP (for watching real media) and Redhat 9.0 (which I use most often after I got my internet connection done). I have a 56X CDROM (unbrand) which is three or four years old.

Now I create ISO image using mkisofs (2.0.6) as follows:

mkisofs -r -V "CDNAME" -o CD.iso CD_DIR

OK. I burned it with cdrecord and when I tried to mount it on my CDROM
(not the LITE-ON CDRW), I can `ls', but when I tried to do the following:

cp -R /mnt/cdrom ~/tmp

The cdrom will not be able to read the CD properly. So I thought cdrecord
was unable to do its job. It ruined my CDR. OK, I tried to burn the CD
now under WinXP, similar problem occured, i.e. the CD.iso created under
Linux after being burned into CD using Nero, cannot be read correctly from
my CDROM either. I thought it was `mode 1' problem but I check all my
previous CD, they are all burned in mode 1. So I think it may not be the
cdrecords problem. I try to copy which I burned in Linux from my CDRW,
well, no problem, all files can be copied!!! But when I tried to copy from my
CDROM, no way, it just fail.

How strange?? My CDROM can read `mode 1' CD, but the ISO file created
under Linux, after it is burned into CD, it can only be read from the CDRW, but not the CDROM.

I hope hardware experts can explain such phenomenon. I hope to use my
CDROM to read all my CD and only used the CDRW to burn because I
am quite afraid that using the CDRW to read CD is not good which reduced
its life.

Thanks.

What command did you actually use to burn it?
IOW, what options did you pass to cdrecord?

try mkisofs -r -o <cdname> <inputfile>
and cdrecord -v speed=24 dev=0,0 <filename.iso>
You dev number's may be different.

Well, I typed the following commands which are standard.

mkisofs -r -J -V "opensrc-200308" -o opensrc.iso opensrc/

cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 driveropts=burnfree dev=0,0,
0 -data opensrc.iso

If I the disk can be read from CDRW and not from CDROM,
I think it is a hardware or mkisofs problem.

Try it without burnfree. I have never been able to use a disk I burned with burnfree.

Use xcdroast and choose the generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver(Sony 928 variant.
It works with burn-free.

Actually, it doesn't matter. cdrecord never used burnfree in my case. It just return a message saying: done burning without using burnfree. So I still believe it to be a problem with CDROM or mkisofs and NOT cdrecord.