k3b and source drive
First, thanks to all of you who helped me with my scsi emulation problem on my two drives. This all started because k3b didn't show my source drive when I wanted to copy a CD. I have the scsi emulation up and running. k3b *STILL* isn't able to use my use my /dev/sr0 drive - a dvd drive, but it's reading CDs at this point - for input for anything. Other applications can without problem, including burners such as CDRoast. Thanks to the availability of multiple apps (one of the reasons I've come to *LOVE* Linux), I can obviously burn CD's, but it's becoming a matter of principle now. I *SHOULD* be able to use k3b, but it will not use my input drive for anything - not even to pull up a directory listing. If I select it in k3b, it says "Sorry, K3b was not able to retrieve disk information." If I go to configure k3b->devices, It sees both drives, and knows that my DVD drive is a reader, configured as /dev/sr0 (Interface: IDE. Is this right? Seems that it should be generic SCSI like the writer. How would I change this if it's wrong?) It knows the device is there, it just can't use it. -- Penguins eat butterflies, don't they?
There is a bug in SuSE 8.1 where both drives go through ide-scsi, while only one drive is a writer. If you're using grub, make sure your /boot/grub/menu.lst is set like this: title linux kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 hdc=ide-cd hdd=ide-scsi \ vga=791 initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd Of course, the hdc=ide-cd and hdd=ide-scsi are only important here. Replace hdc with the device of your reader and hdd with the device of your writer. Op zaterdag 12 april 2003 16:08, schreef Michael Satterwhite:
First, thanks to all of you who helped me with my scsi emulation problem on my two drives.
This all started because k3b didn't show my source drive when I wanted to copy a CD. I have the scsi emulation up and running. k3b *STILL* isn't able to use my use my /dev/sr0 drive - a dvd drive, but it's reading CDs at this point - for input for anything. Other applications can without problem, including burners such as CDRoast.
Thanks to the availability of multiple apps (one of the reasons I've come to *LOVE* Linux), I can obviously burn CD's, but it's becoming a matter of principle now. I *SHOULD* be able to use k3b, but it will not use my input drive for anything - not even to pull up a directory listing. If I select it in k3b, it says "Sorry, K3b was not able to retrieve disk information."
If I go to configure k3b->devices, It sees both drives, and knows that my DVD drive is a reader, configured as /dev/sr0 (Interface: IDE. Is this right? Seems that it should be generic SCSI like the writer. How would I change this if it's wrong?)
It knows the device is there, it just can't use it.
-- Penguins eat butterflies, don't they?
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 16:08, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
principle now. I *SHOULD* be able to use k3b, but it will not use my input drive for anything - not even to pull up a directory listing. If I select it in k3b, it says "Sorry, K3b was not able to retrieve disk information."
Are you talking about commercial DVDs? Do you have libdvdcss installed? It's illegal in the US (and possibly elsewhere) so SuSE can't distribute it officially, but it's needed to read commercial, encrypted DVDs. Go to packman.links2linux.de and update to the latest libdvdread and libdvdcss you can find there. Then try again
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