-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
On Sunday 13 July 2008 12:39:51 am G T Smith wrote:
I would point the finger at the cause of the result of your scanbus results. For some reason the SCSI or USB is loosing contact with the device and this suggests this is *not* a KDE issue but more likely a kernel or driver issue if swapping cable or cleaning does not help...
Don't know if you noticed that nerolinux *just works* on the same setup, after k3b fails all i have to do is unplug and reinsert the the usb connector or recycle power on the external drive! Also, I noticed that the scsi bus number floats around, the dvd is seen on bus 14, other times on 13, other times on 11. since the physical port i use is the same and no other usb devices are added or removed, shouldn't the bus number stay the same? d.
You rather confirm what I suspected was happening. Changing device definitions that is the probable root cause of the problem and I would agree that it is preferable that they should remain constant. I have seen similar behaviour with USB/Firewire disk devices before but so far only with slightly flaky hardware. (There are three things I would expect to give trouble from time to time on any OS, USB devices, DVD/CD drives and WiFi and you have two out of three here). - From the sequence you showed what seems to be happening is that the linux burning software initiates a communication sequence, which either deliberately (or unintentionally) causes a device reset and the device reappears somewhere else or just hangs. As far as K3B/wodim are concerned the device has 'gone way'. Whether it is the kernel modules involved, the burning software, or interaction between these components that is the cause is a moot point. I do not think this is specifically a KDE issue (as the wodim -scanbus test strongly indicated). - From the description of the Nerolinux product I would suspect that Nero do not use the standard Linux drivers but their own (as I believe they do within windows), and can cope with this. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIeyHhasN0sSnLmgIRAikNAKDiu4o8HYNQo8EGPl8MbF/ijzORIgCcCBAx xRG0QskkVj7ZXey37jiT9t8= =VH66 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org