On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:35 am, Tom wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrakelinux-10.2rc2]$
What Mandrake version are you currently usin? <= 10.0, 10.1, an now 10.2 all use different daemons an methods for removable media. With 10.2 you'll need to burn as root to avoid serious risk of buffer underruns.
Do you get output when you just type 'cdrecord -help' ? (cdrecord is installed, right?) Does your drive show up when you type, 'll /dev/hd*' ? Does,
$ ll /dev/sg* crw-rw---- 1 tom cdwriter 21, 0 Apr 2 08:51 /dev/sg0 crw-rw---- 1 tom cdwriter 21, 1 Apr 2 08:51 /dev/sg1
===================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ ll /dev/hd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 8 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda8 brw-rw---- 1 aron cdrom 3, 64 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ ==================================
Alright, then with 10.1 (this first part would also be the same for 10.2)
'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will show you the scsibus numbers, EG, somethin like 0,0,0 (which should be better than usin /dev/hdb)
cd to the directory the isos are in and
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=ATA:0,0,0 -dao Mand<Tab>
Now I've simplified that quite a bit, actually about bare minimum. You should be able to handle speed=4, use your numbers rather than the example 0,0,0 -dao is a must for .iso's Specially needed so the md5sum of the burned CD will check.
With the burned CD in the drive, 'md5sum /dev/hdb' should return (might take a minute or so) the same md5sum as the iso file has. With marginal CD drives, you may need to try it several times before it succeeds.
...show your user name as a member of the cdwriter group?
No problem burning other CDs both audio and data am currently using Mdk 10.1
Includin 700mb's ? If you can burn 650's, but not 700 you really need a better burner. Mandrake gave into the 650 crowd a few versions ago, but has since determined it's just not worth the inconvenience to the vast majority with decent burners. If you can't use 700's, get a new burner. Sometimes somone redoes the iso's to < 650 an makes them available for FTP. I think the Mdk Club use to also do it. But don't hold your breath ;)
I believe if you can run 'cdrecord dev=ATA:0,0,0 -atip' with a blank 700mb CDr in the drive, and it returns succesfully, info about cdrecord, your drive and the manufacturer of the blank Cdr... then you should be able to burn up to 703mb. I don't really know tho, even my (1997) 8432 Plextor could burn the cheapest 700's
Your other option would be to d/l, IIRC, 'boot.iso' from a mirror, 'dd' it to a floppy and do an install from the iso's on your HDD. You'll need somebody or a tutorial that's knows more about that than me. I haven't done it in ages, an some changes have been made in the process for 10.2. You might be able to find out from the cooker ML archive or http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki At a minimum you should read the 10.2 Release Notes.
When/if you get 10.2 installed (an I'd recommend a fresh install saving your /home) magicdev will no longer be there, supermount is used only for floppy's. gnome-volume-manager in conjunction with HAL and dbus is the entirely user space daemon for handling removable media, like CD drives. As such it can't access certain things reserved to root. IE, as user:
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
The only work around is to burn as root, even with a GUI. You'll probly also need to run 'gnome-volume-properties' once as root and under the heading "Removable Media", enable the first 3 (of the 4) options (if they aren't already).
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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