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I believe that a few people have had problems writing DVDs under SuSE 9.1. I will add my rather shocking story to these tales of woe...
I have:
Pioneer DVR-107D
SuSE 9.1
Kernel 2.6.5-7.95-default, as updated through YOU.
After a few attempts to get cdrecord working, I gave up. Today I tried K3B. The version courtesy of SuSE would start to write a DVD, then grumble about growisofs aborting and cause the DVD drive to go catatonic (reboot required).
I picked up the latest K3B rpm from Packman (as directed from the K3B site) - this fixed the problem.
HOWEVER (and a big however), K3B successfully recorded a DVD for me, but when it finished, it locked the whole machine. Mouse, keyboard, network connections, the lot. It did what I thought was impossible and CRASHED LINUX!
Another reboot and I found the DVD had recorded OK.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is amiss?
I have a minor concern that my DVD has been set up by the system as /dev/sr0 - I thought that the 2.6.x kernels were supposed to talk normal IDE to IDE devices without any of this horrible SCSI emulation.
The crash is certainly possible, as you give root privileges to cdrecord to write a cd/dvd. Root can do anything it likes - even crash linux (as you probably know).
I think you should report it as a K3B problem, as it seems like K3B is giving some odd orders to cdrecord.
Thanks Sohni - I double-checked, running cdrecord from the command line - still big problems.
However, problem now solved - for CDs at least (DVD writing not yet tested). I've managed to burn three Slackware iso's for my embedded project and the three CDs wrote and verified without a hitch.
How was the problem solved? I ran a SuSE online update (YOU) from a different mirror server than normal - seems like my local one may be a bit out of date.
Amongst other things, this upgraded the kernel to 2.6.5-7.108-default. When I re-booted after the update, the horrible /dev/sr0 that was the DVD writer disappeared. The drive was autodetected and re-configured (as it should have been) to /dev/hdc.
Moral of this story: check that your updates are up-to-date!
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Update: Have now tested writing DVD - all OK.
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