cdrecord and cdrw+ tools broken in 2.6.8 ?
 

have a major problem writing CDs under SuSE 9.2.
It has been discussed here:
http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-...1/msg00861.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...1/msg00303.html

Apparently the only solution is to wait until a 2.6.9 kernel is released by SuSE . But some people have found a "work around" - is this simply burning as root? Because that doesnt work for me :(

linux:/home/george # uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.8-24.10-default #1 Wed Dec 22 11:54:27 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I get this with cdrecord -scanbus

scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DW-U10A ' '1.1d' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *


and this in the logs:

sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 1-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [1024]
Vendor: SONY Model: DVD RW DW-U10A Rev: 1.1d
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5


So...why wont k3b detect it?
I have tried writing as root, and it has detected the drive occasionally. It just spews out tea coasters though. Seems the drive starts writing then gives up (no more light flashing). In k3b It detects a "ghost" of my DVD drive as the CD-writer although it is detecting that it is at /dev/sr0. If I refresh, it disappears and will not let me add a device at /dev/sr0

Is this a scsi or ide cdrom?

If it is ide then you should not be using scsi emulation with 2.6 kernel. Remove the append "hdb=ide-scsi" from lilo.conf file and try it (run lilo first). You may also need to modify /etc/fstab so the proper device e.g. /dev/hdb is mounting to /mnt/cdrom.