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I am running Slackware 12.1 and for some odd reason I cannot burn anything with my dvd burner. K3b basically burns a lead in and then I get an error. I wasted like 8 disks trying to get it working in Slackware. The dvd burner is new and works perfectly with other distros. Here is the debugging output for k3b:
/dev/hdd is my DVD burner
[root@Venus comhack]# ls -l cd*
ls: cannot access cd*: No such file or directory
[root@Venus comhack]# ls -l dvd*
ls: cannot access dvd*: No such file or directory
Maybe that is the problem there are no syslinks?
Thanks
Last edited by securitybreach; 05-04-2008 at 08:34 PM.
Is DMA turned on to the drive? I don't know that much about it but I've a Slack 11 box with DVD burner (in it, I do have DMA turned on) forget how I did it like via rc.local or what I did to get DMA=on. It burns DVD's great.
Most of the IDE burners need to be set as secondary, master, in order to avoid CRC errors
or failures during the burning. In linux, it would be /dev/hdc.
I don't know if this is true or not, but then I have never had my DVD burner set as a slave either.
You might want to try making the DVD burner the master drive (hdc) and the other CD burner the slave (hdd).
If this does not appeal to you for any reason, you might try implicitly defining each drive in fstab
rather than leaving the line commented for hal and udev to sort out.
Code:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/dvdwriter auto noauto,user 0 0
Having never dealt with 2 burners in one box before, I'm afraid I can't speak from experience here.
Well that didnt work so I am gonna unplug the one drive since I do not use it and reinstall. I have my home on a different partition so I wont lose anything.
You should not have to reinstall for swapping out a dvd drive - just change the jumpers and edit fstab.
Actually, you would not even need to do that if the cdrom lines are still commented.
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