-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-09-26 at 19:51 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
K3b complains when I start it with:
cdrecord = 2.6.8 <-- in red color Since Linux kernel 2.6.8 cdrecord Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem. What??? Did something get chopped out of this?
It seems so, but in k3b itself, not in the mail :-(
Are the hardware parameters (eg. DMA mode) actually in use consistent with the device capability as reported by hdparm? (I'm assuming you rebooted along the way, and that did nothing.)
I have tried both with and without DMA. DMA is working, the DVD I burnt without it went at 1x, and with DMA at 4x. It's not that, it is a full fledged write error caused by the software (growisofs or lower). nimrodel:~ # hdparm /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 1024 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device <-- typical for opticals The weird thing is that DMA got deactivated in the hours between the previous mail and this (the computer has not been powered off nor reset). I have set it on again. I never had a problem with that before. /dev/hdc: Model=HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B, FwRev=A300, SerialNo=K3448VG1350 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic } RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 AdvancedPM=no Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 * signifies the current active mode I'm going to install 9.3 in another partition :-// - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFGkDQtTMYHG2NR9URAlZBAJ9ZGoF9vXkjMPESi+/aQbbwkBDuNQCeLzbI Y4AHRLtSa93DQ7sDj2EJmc0= =/u1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----