In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get k3b to recognise their writer.
I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems or systems that I build. Using Mandrake 9.1 On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on the one cable. The reader was at the end of the cable, and later I installed and connected a writer into the center of the cable. I then started to use k3b which recognised both accurately. However, after some months, the reader had problems. The reader didn't read and the system told me that no media was present. The reader was jumpered as the master and the writer was jumpered as the slave. I couldn't boot a CD-ROM, so I altered the positions of both drives on the cable. Put the writer at the end and the reader in the centre of the cable, and jumpered the writer as master and just to fill up the hole and try the reader again, still put the plug in and jumpered it as slave. Surprise, surprise. The reader worked again and the writer booted CD's But when I tried to burn CD's, k3b would not recognise the writer. Saw it only as a reader. Just in case, uninstalled k3b and then reinstalled it, but it still registered 2 readers, no writer. So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but just jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master. Invoked k3b, it now recognised the writer as such and the reader correctly also. The reader still worked and the writer with k3b burned CD's without and trouble. Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having trouble with k3b not recognising writers> Charlie. -- The birch tree is all over green in small leaf, more light and elegant than when it is full out. It bent to the breezes, as if for the love of its own delightful motions. Dorothy Wordsworth This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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