On Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 14:46:15 (-0300 UTC) Bob Williams wrote:

On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 16:49:17 Marco Calistri wrote:

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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.

Or hardware related, perhaps? Does the drive work OK with non-linux operating systems?

Bob Bob,

Effectively your is a good point but if you just search on Google about this kind of problem then you will meet hundreds of cases where the problem is not HAW related. In any case I will try to boot with a Microsoft Windows external disk, to see if the problem is on my CD drive or not. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 16:58:15 (-0300 UTC) Michael Powell wrote:

Marco Calistri wrote:

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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.

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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:41:57 +0100 (CET), "Carlos E. R." wrote:

Install an old version of openSUSE that you know it worked,

If it isn't too old I'd suggest using the Live CD to spare yourself the installation. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2011-03-17 at 18:58 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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Install an old version of openSUSE that you know it worked,

If it isn't too old I'd suggest using the Live CD to spare yourself the installation.

Can you use a live on CD to test CD/DVD burning? Both ops on the same drive? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2Cdf4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XzFQCfR5dJQJrxSZzA8rtgWtp2svlL qFUAn3+5O9O/0KjA62xPFrqp5rhVr4VB =Oss+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2011-03-17 at 18:24 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote:

On Thu 17 Mar 2011 at 17:58:37 (-0300 UTC) Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Can you use a live on CD to test CD/DVD burning? Both ops on the same drive?

Carlos: TOUCHED :-)

I think it is impossible, at least in my case where I have a notebook with just one drive.

Or may be it is possible if all kernel and modules went loaded into RAM (I have 4GB) then slip off live CD and test an empty media to burn (??)

The entire ISO would have to be loaded in memory. It is possible with a modern machine, I think I saw a friend load another CD. I have little experience with "lives" myself.

Mumble mumble...

Indeed :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2GGRMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W32gCeItDSkzGaPYaz3qFbG5CB7FQi H2kAn2kg8g0yw9UfOEpy/JyO+lcm+ZDG =OHU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu 17 Mar 2011 at 21:11:17 (-0300 UTC) Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

El 16/03/11 13:49, Marco Calistri escribió:

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ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50) ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen sr 1:0:0:0: CDB: Xdread, Read track info: 52 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 20 00 ata1.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:20:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 16416 in res 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata1: EH complete I place my bets into your DVD drive being broken, drive noises are the key!

To all mates that have lost their precious time to answer me about this funny issue: APOLOGIES! I have a bit of shame to confess that the problem was just a very small dirt particle that has glued onto the CD-DVD drive lens! It took me a lot to discover it and I don't know how it has happen. I played several times a CD lens cleaner which evidently doesn't sorted out the issue. Beside this the strange is that DVD disc went burned correctly but CD-R never. Then I started to think about a kernel issue or other mistery until I discover that the lens was not perfectly clean. Then now I can burn both CD and DVD without any problems. Regards, -- Marco Calistri In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the the politician's fingerprints on the murder weapon. -- Thomas Sowell, _Applied Economics_ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org