EFF CD and USB CD drive

Hi all,

I’m trying to copy the fonts from my ‘EFF Professional Typography 2’ CD into the !Fonts directory on my Raspberry Pi 2B. The CD worked fine in the past, and the CD drive works find both on my Mac and on this RISC OS machine. Separately, that is. The EFF CD opens using this drive and I can browse the directories. However, as soon as I start copying the contents of the RISC OS fonts directory either into the !Fonts directory or just onto the SD card on the Pi, the whole machine freezes and I get the error message “No hardware at this device ID”. Then it’s a power off jobby.

Any ideas?

My first thought is a power problem. Does the CD drive have its own PSU?

Another option might be to try copying onto a RAM disc rather than onto another storage medium, then copying from the RAM disc onto the other medium?

You could try sharing the CD from a machine where it works.

You could also make an ISO on another machine and use one of the image mounters to read it on the Pi.

Hardware broken – either the power supply, or the drive itself. How old is it?

I think you have CDBurn or CDVDBurn IIRC – you could try to extract the image with the SCSI driver instead of via CDFS, if the drive is OK then this will have better chances to work than with CDFS. Then mount the image with CDFaker.

and use one of the image mounters to read it on the Pi.

There is more than one???