On Friday, 30 December 2005 at 21:55:27 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 09:24, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: > > [...] > >> SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6. > > > > I keep reading this, but xcdroast and so on still complain every time > > that I should use SCSI emulation even though the kernel is 2.6.x. > > I haven't used xcdroast, so I can't say. Does it work without SCSI > emulation?
Yes, it seemed to work usually. I take the precaution of setting a very low speed, just in case. > > K3b gives me warnings about permissions on the cdrecord binaries, but I've > discovered that I don't need to pay any attention. IIRC, there was some > change in kernel 2.8.1 that caused the K3b developers to add the helpful > warning; I think this was changed back in some subsequent kernel version. > > > Is some other adjustment or setting needed instead? > > Does xcdroast use cdrecord to actually write the disks? cdrecord has and > still has some useless messages about "unresolved issues" in Linux "2.5", > which now represent nothing more than a bad attitude on the part of its > developer. There were no "issues" and there are no "issues". Yes, I believe the warnings come from cdrecord. They certainly also appear when I burn from the command line. I was under the impression that K3b was also a cdrecord frontend. > To the author's credit, cdrecord is still an excellent program. I second that. I revert to using it directly whenever I get any snags with the gui tools. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]