Fwd: K3b Burn Problems in SuSE 8.1 (and problems with CD-RW drive in general)
Charles and everyone, I guess I wasn't clear enough. can't even burn at all anymore. in fact, If I try to do "eject /dev/hdc" it gives the error i described earlier in the part of the message that says "SECOND, RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT"... Any ideas how to fix the CD-RW drive problem? Thanks! Tom Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote: After burning a CD, press the "show debug output" button right next to the close button. Charles --------PROBLEM DESCRIBED BELOW------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:19:23 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Reagan (tom_is_my_name@yahoo.com Subject:K3b Burn Problems in SuSE 8.1 (and problems with CD-RW drive in general) I installed a new CD-RW drive on my desktop running SuSE 8.1 Professional Linux. Right now, I have two drives in the system. A regular old CD-ROM and this CD-RW drive. My CD-ROM (/dev/hdd) can read CDs just fine (audio or data). I tried to install a later version of K3b to no avail. It made me update to KDE 3.1. That's a whole other (very long, painful) story...I am back to KDE3.0.3 (I think/hope). Bottom line is that I'm using k3b 0.7 right now. Prior to the KDE sidetracking, if I did "eject /dev/hdc" my CD-RW would eject. If I did "eject /dev/hdd" my CD-ROM would eject. Further, k3b correctly(?) recognized/recognizes my reader as /dev/hdd and my CD-RW as /dev/sg0. I'm pretty sure that those are in fact the right /dev files because if I do "eject /dev/hdc" or "eject /dev/hdd" the drive I would expect to eject does. Two problems... FIRST, HERE'S WHAT USED TO HAPPEN BEFORE THE KDE3.1 SIDETRACKING: When trying to burn mp3's in k3b, sometimes (ie. rarely) the burn seemed to go okay. By this I mean that all the tracks are written and seem to be the right length. However, the tracks on the CD are nothing but static. Also, the very end of the songs--probably the last half second or so--seems to sound right. (Yes, it was set up as an audio project.) Most of the time though, I was getting the message "not all files have been buffered". I also noticed that the programs tccat, tcdecode, tcextract, tcscan, tcprobe, and transcode all seemed to be missing. SECOND, RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT, I CAN'T EVEN EJECT /dev/hdc (the CD-RW) ANYMORE AT ALL. I get the message: eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error I get the same message if I try to "eject /dev/sg0". Admittedly though, I never tried that before the KDE Sidetrack. However, if I go into K3b setup it STILL says the CD-RW is "Generic SCSI" and on /dev/sg0. I have the boot line in grub set for ide-scsi (or scsi-ide can't remember which offhand). Thanks in advance for you help! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:01:43 -0800 (PST) Tom Reagan <tom_is_my_name@yahoo.com> wrote:
Prior to the KDE sidetracking, if I did "eject /dev/hdc" my CD-RW would eject. If I did "eject
Of course this wouldn't work, you are using SCSI emulation (you did load ide-scsi at boot time, right?), try: eject /dev/cdrom or eject /dev/sr0 Charles -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste (ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:23:58 -0500 Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
eject /dev/cdrom
If this doesn't work, please post the output of: ls -l /dev/cdrom Charles -- "The move was on to 'Free the Lizard'" -- Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
Charles, "eject /dev/sr0" ejected the CD-RW and "eject /dev/cdrom" ejected the CD-ROM as you suggested. I still can't begin to burn CDs at this point in k3d. I can copy files to the audio project (in the bottom of the k3b window). I hit the "Burn" button. k3b pops up a "Burn CD" window which shows the Burning Device as "SONY CD-RW CRX100E (/dev/sg0)" with 1X Burning Speed. I check ON: "Simulate Writing", "Writing on the fly", and "DiskAtOnce". I then hit the "Write" button. A popup comes up which says "Please insert an empty CDR medium into drive" (followed by the drive name "SONY CD-RW CRX100E (/dev/sg0)"). I put the blank 74 minute CD in the drive. It gives me the option to Force or Cancel. I got to this point twice from a user (non-root) account. The first time, I hit Force and k3b crashed immediately. The second time, I wait to hit Force and in the terminal I start k3b from, I see the following message repeatedly until I hit either Force or Cancel: 'Cannot open SG device "/dev/sg0": Permission denied', but just sometimes.) After a few minutes, if I choose Force, I get the old message "Not all files have been buffered." I hit "Show Debugging Ouutput". I get a "Debugging output - K3b" window with absolutely nothing in it except an empty text window and an OK button (which I hit). The third time, I hit Cancel and k3b crashes. Thanks again, Tom PS--I'm confused why doing an "eject /dev/hdd" used to (before the KDE3.1 stuff) work...? --- Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:01:43 -0800 (PST) Tom Reagan <tom_is_my_name@yahoo.com> wrote:
Prior to the KDE sidetracking, if I did "eject /dev/hdc" my CD-RW would eject. If I did "eject
Of course this wouldn't work, you are using SCSI emulation (you did load ide-scsi at boot time, right?), try:
eject /dev/cdrom
or
eject /dev/sr0
Charles
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