Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1046 mails)

[Marco Calistri <marco.calistri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 16:58:15 (-0300 UTC) Michael Powell wrote:
> Marco Calistri wrote:
>
> > Mates,
> >
> > Starting from 11.2 after some kernel updates, up to last 11.4, I am not
> > more able to use my CD drive to burn media.
> >
> > Beside horrible noise generated from the drive, attempting to read the
> > media tracks and or setting the parameters, all the tries to burn an iso
> > image are vanes.
> >
> > The problem is world-wide present in many linux distro as Ubuntu, Arch,
> > Debian,... so is clear that is kernel related.
> Don't know about that... My box burns CD and DVD media with no problem. Has 
> for a long time, 11.3 and now 11.4 have not any problem for me. But my 
> burner is also an old IDE PATA type and not SATA. It is unclear what kind of 
> hardware you have.
>  
> > Wonder if somebody has been able to find a solution to this annoying
> > issue and what are the latest news in regards to (may be ) a kernel-patch.
> I doubt you need any kernel patch. Most of the rest of the world can burn 
> CD/DVDs and don't need any kernel patches. If you have in the past been 
> patching your system willy-nilly that is more likely to be the cause of your 
> problem. 
>
> The first wedge to drive in for a divide and conquer approach is you somehow 
> need to eliminate hardware from the picture. If you can prove the burner can 
> work in another machine and/or OS then you can concentrate on software being 
> the problem. Until you definitively split the problem you could be just 
> continually keep going around in circles.
>
> -Mike
Hello Mike!

I'm using a notebook here HP DV6230BR and the CD/DVD is a TST Corp.
(sorry I cannot provide further details now).
I will provide more details in case the issue be HW or perhaps driver
(kernel_module) related.
I seen plenty of complains by googling and many users declare is not
hardware problem since the CD/DVD stopped to work suddenly after a
kernel upgrade.
Some people have ran a kernel downgrade in order re-establish the proper
working of the media driver.

Since openSUSE 10.3 I always used official kernels so I can disregard
this point.
I can suspect two things so far: hardware malfunction or driver
(kernel_module) malfunction with current kernels.
In order to isolate the cause I will try to boot my machine with a
Windows external HDD, but I'm pretty sure that CD will works ok.

Thanks for your feedback, is really what is a good modum-operandi and I
was already aligned with such step by step verifications but I would
post the issue just to see if somebody else jump out talking " I have
the same problem too and I solved in this way..."

Regards,

 
-- 
Marco Calistri You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone
with. -- Wayne Dyer

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