On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:58 pm, Krikket wrote:
I'm having to problems with these programs... (I'm using the version of K3b abd kscd that came with SuSE 9.0, on a freshly installed dual boot system (W98SE). Even W98SE was a fresh install...)
First, the one that happens ith both of them -- for some truly annoying reason, whenever I put a blank CD in the drive, K3b starts up. And whenever a blank CD is put in the drive, kscd starts up.
Anyone know how to stop this unwanted behavior? I always did hate that aspect of Windows, and I thought I would be free of it by switching to Linux... ================= Krikket, 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. -------------------------
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. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...