On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, BandiPat wrote:
Unless SuSE has changed something in 9.0 that I am not aware of yet, check your /etc/fstab for the cd drives and the specs. Here is a line from mine in 8.2 for a cdrom drive: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Notice the "noauto" part? If you have just "auto" there, then edit the file to make the change. I believe that is where you'll find the automounting is coming from.
Actually, I like the auto mounting, and have even installed the automounting software. But this is going a step further than just mounting -- it's starting software. It's that last step (starting of software) that I want to stop. I suppose it may mean that I need to d/l and install another copy of the programs...
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Second problem, I used K3b succesfully to copy a couple of data CDs. All well and good so far. Since that point (and with no changes to anything, I only hit the "Copy" and "Start CD Copy" buttons) I've been getting: [...] (At first, this happened most of the way through the copy, then the middle, and now the first thing, before it get's anywhere. Cloning a CD has the same problem.) [...] Any thoughts/comments/suggestions?
Thanks again,
Krikket ====================
The second problem could stem from your settings, either for your cdrom or in k3b for your drives. To use cdrdao, both drives have to emulate scsi and quite likely only your cdrw is setup for that. The best thing to do is when making a copy is use only one drive. Let the process copy an image to the hard drive, then write from the hd to the cdr. Trying to copy from one drive to another on an IDE chain is haphazard and likely to produce more coasters than good copies. That's not to say it can't be done, as I have and probably many others here have as well, but it's still not a good idea with IDE.
Another program that doesn't use cdrdao for copying is XCDroast. It will use cdrecord for copying and will allow cd to cd copying. You might want to try that too.
Yeah, I've heard of that problem before. Although, when I was running a Windoze machine (and Nero software), I made 50+ CD's with that combination, with 0 coasters. So I know it doesn't *have* to be that way. Still, I'll give XCDRoast a try and see what happens. What I find really curious, is that it was working at first, and then stopped after 2 CDs, with the problem getting more severe the more CDs I attemped to copy. At least it never got around to trying to burn them, so I didn't create coasters in the process. (Although I did set the blanks aside, just in case I'm wrong about that...) Krikket