On Sunday 01 January 2006 14:12, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:07 +0100, James Mohr wrote:
I am having trouble reading DVD written by K3b in the same drive as I write them. I am using the default version that comes with SUSE 10 (0.12.3) with the version that came with SuSE 9.2, I did not have this problem.
James, I have the same problem, although not just DVDs written with k3b (I have since upgraded to the packman version), but DVDs and CDs in general.
The problem is a bit deeper. For some reason the devices for the DVD and CD drives disappear. For example, I have a DVD-RW on /dev/hda and a CD-RW on /dev/hdc (hard drive is SATA hence on sda). On a cold boot, both drives work, but after say, a day, I can no longer read discs anymore, and if I check in /dev, the hda and hdc entries are gone.
Usually, doing rmmod ide_cd and rmmod cdrom, and then modprobe ide_cd and modprobe cdrom sorts it out, but not always.
This is only in SUSE 10, and seems limited either to certain hardware. or to the 32bit edition. I haven't had this issue with SUSE 10.0 64-bit on my notebook, but both my home PC and work PC (both AthonXP with VIA based boards and the exact same LG DVD-RW) give this problem. Then again, on my old notebook (Pentium-3) I didn't have this problem, but that was SUSE 10.0-rc (the openSUSE version).
Hope this helps Hans
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that did not help. I installed the packman version, but I am still getting: /media/dvdram: No medium found However, I did try the trick of removing and them re-adding the modules. That worked. <rant> It would be nice if k3b decided that there were problems with the encoding of files names **before** it started writing. I cannot even begin count how man times it barfed because a file a character in its name that k3b did not like, but already started writing the DVD or CD. After which I could only throw the media away. </rant> Regards, Jim Mohr -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- The Linux Tutorial needs your help! Visit us at http://www.linux-tutorial.info