Quoting Pagan :

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I have installed 9.1 (pro) and now I cannot write cds. I can write dvd's successfully. However, cd burns fail. k3b sits there for a few and tells me that there isn't a media in drive (there is). I hit eject and then load. it sits there awhile and then finally bombs with an error.

No I've tried this with the cdrecord from suse 9.1 cds, 9.1 ftp site, pacman, and a build from the source.

Quite frankly I am getting aggravated at this. Every version that I have installed since 8.2 has done this to me. On two differant burners. If you at SuSE cannot get such a SIMPLE thing going and LEAVE IT ALONE then you will loose me (and others) as customers. Think about it from my perspective; I send you money to buy your latest software release nearly 90 bucks time it's said and done, install it try to burn a cd and guess what it doesn't work. Jumping through hoops to try and resolve it with EVERY release I install.

If I was running obscure hardware I would understand. However, I am NOT. 1st cdrw was a Yamaha scsi-2 4x burner. This one is a LG dvd/cdrw.

PLEASE stabilize and then LEAVE ALONE cdrecording on SuSE!

I realize that this email is a bitch-mail, but please understand my current state.

Pagan

Don't have these problems. What is DMA mode set to? It should be on.... Rich Richard E. Long, CISSP ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Harold, On Monday 16 August 2004 22:54, Pagan wrote:

I have installed 9.1 (pro) and now I cannot write cds. I can write dvd's successfully. However, cd burns fail. k3b sits there for a few and tells me that there isn't a media in drive (there is). I hit eject and then load. it sits there awhile and then finally bombs with an error.

If you think CD and DVD recording is a "SIMPLE thing," then you're just not aware of the vast complexity hidden behind the simple user-level model of CD's as being just another hard disk. That image is very far from the true nature of things under the hood and it does not take much to derail the operations of these devices. I'll agree that by today's standards CD / DVD recording is a central capability and thus very painful for users when it's broken, but this is the nature of software development as it's practiced today. The Linux kernel is not avionics or biomedical control systems, and it's not subject to the same development discipline or testing regimen applied to such critical systems. If it were, we probably could not expect it to be free, among other things, nor as rapidly progressing as it is. I have no doubt that from the very moment this issue came to the attention of the engineers and managers at SuSE they've been working hard to rectify it. But they have to be careful, because haste in addressing a bug can lead to even worse problems in the putative fix. Personally, I'm content to exercise patience in this matter. By the way, while I, too, encounter the alert proclaiming the absence of recordable media in K3b, if you just go ahead and attempt the burn, it will work. At least it did for me when I burned an ISO image file to a DVD today under kernel 2.6.5-7.104-smp.

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Pagan -- Harold AKA Pagan

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