I hope someone can help me.

I tried burning 55 megs of pictures and it took 2.0 hours, using k3b cd burner.

Also, I cannot burn .mp3s at all.

I'm using SuSE 8.2 and like it pretty much overall but this burner issue has me really frustrated.

I have a CDRW as a master on my secondary IDE and also an older CDRW as it's slave. Both drives can be read.

I'm not sure what else to add to be more helpful w/my problem.

Try opening a console, as root and typing "cdrecord -scanbus" without the quotes. You should get a list something like this -
cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'JLMS ' 'DVD-ROM LTD-166S' 'DS0B' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-48125W ' 'VS08' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

If you don't, then you need to enable SuSE to see your writer as a scsi drive. You need to find out if you use grub or lilo, and post back.

ed@linux:~> cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir@suse.de-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-RW 52XMax ' '170D' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX1611 ' 'TYS3' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

My system shows this when I type in what you said. I think I use grub but I'm going to check.

My computer starts up with Grub as I dual boot.

Try splitting the 2 cdrom drives between the ide channels.
ide0
hda master
cdrom slave
ide1
cdrw master

Thanks for your input but I think the first guy is onto it, I think I need to set up the scsi-ide... I tried what you suggested, it didn't work either.

I will PayPal someone $10 if they fix this for me. Thanks.

Ed

ok ok lets see if i get the 10 bucks hehe
add this line to your grub.conf/lilo.conf file depending on what bootloader you use...
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
hdd may differ on your drive, as you will put whatever your device is...actually now that i read what you said it will be hdc, and hdd in your case ...
so you can add this to cover both devices...
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

Forget the money.

Each of your drives is already seen as a scsi device ( Linux does this to enable the drives to write quickly, as does Windows ). So, you don't need to mess with either Grub or Lilo.

I suspect your problem may be with K3B. If I were you, I'd download the latest version of XCDRoast. There are SuSE 8.2 rpms on this page - http://xcdroast.sourceforge.net/RPMS/a14/suse-8.2/ Download either one and install with Yast2. Then run it and see if it works better than K3B.