Linux - HardwareThis forum is for Hardware issues.
Having trouble installing a piece of hardware? Want to know if that peripheral is compatible with Linux?
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
Background: On a Dell inspiron 8100 I have a dual boot. XP and Suse 8.2. I mostly use Linux as the main OS. The DVD/CDRW has worked just fine ever since I installed Suse 8.2.
Lately however, I have been unable to use the CDRW part of the drive. The DVD works fine. I have DMA on for the drive. But when I go through a burn session using KB3, I have to force the program to write. Then after it reaches 100% on the status bar, the machine freezes forcing a hard reboot. I have tried the command line cdrdao, but that seems to use the same commands as KB3 because it freezes as well. I have tried xcdroast but that won't even start to write. It comes back with an error and aborts. What is sad is the drive works fine in XP, so I am assuming that it has to do with drivers or something. Thanks in advance.
You say that you've enabled DMA for the drive... however, in order to burn CDs you need to enable scsi emulation, so dma won't make a difference (I think). Have you got hdx=ide-scsi in your bootloader's config file?
And which device are you telling k3b/cdrecord/cdrdao to use? You should be pointing it either at the scsi device name (/dev/scd0 perhaps) or the scsi id number (o,o,o perhaps). Check to see if /dev/scd0 exists and also run cdrecord -scanbus from the commandline and find out what the scsi id number for your burner is.
UPDATE: I reinstalled the OS thinking that it would fix the problem. It didn't. Do these programs store their settings on in /home? I have /home on a different partition so that I won't lose the data. So it didn't get formatted. Any thoughts on what to check for and where? (As a side note anyone have any idea why Xine does not work well with DVDs on SuSE 8.2? and is Mandrake or Debian better for multimedia just as DVD or SVCD playback?)
Thanks
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.