CD burning, Mandrake 9.2

sammckee · 12-11-2004, 12:31 PM

I was running Mandrake 9.1 for a while and had no problem burning CD using an NEC CD-RW device with k3b. I upgraded to 9.2 but haven't had any reason to burn a CD since, until now. I just downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10.1, and when I try to burn the CD I get "unknown error 255."

I have Googled this to death and found a lot of people have had the same problem, but I have yet to find an answer that is understandable to someone who has never written has own Linux distro from scratch. Is there an answer for a layman?

Thanks.

sammckee · 12-14-2004, 05:47 PM

Update--I've tried various different versions of cdrecord now, and still the same result. Some people have suggested to me that the cdrecord that comes with Mandrake 9.2 is bogus and that I should try an older version. I tried the latest from the cdrecord home page, and I'm currently on cdrecord-2.0-2.2mdk, which also does not work.

Crito · 12-15-2004, 08:42 AM

I don't have a solution for you, but can assure you CD burning does indeed work with MDK 9.2 and the bundled version of K3B, as I use both on a regular basis. Only thing that comes to mind is that SCSI emulation is required with IDE drives and the 2.4.x kernel... might want to check lilo.conf to make sure you didn't disable it.

sammckee · 12-15-2004, 11:30 PM

How do I check that?

Crito · 12-16-2004, 09:14 AM

Well, I punched "scsi emulation lilo.conf mandrake 9.2" into Google and got lots of clues... but to save you some time, you need to pass "hdc=ide-scsi" to the kernel as a startup parameter -- hdc assumes your burner is master on secondary IDE; if it's a slave you might need to use hdb (primary slave) or hdd (secondary slave).