Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles
Yeah my experience with the XCDroast package is it will try to calculate the size of the image to be created and go to the disk and the hard drive will start up and never return! I've watched the process with the KDE process management tool, and it will consume all the CPU resources at least 98%! I had to then terminate the process. I haven't tried the new cooker stuff yet. vern "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > No, it's the Mandrake 7 version of mkisofs that's broken, though it took > us some time (and lots of messages in this list) to figure that out . . > . > > The cooker one is fixed; there's a test program on my website to see if > it's causing you trouble. > > NOTE that it only corrupts some files, so you could be creating > potentiallly-corrupt CDs and not know it if you haven't run the test > program! > > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > I seem to recall reading that the CDRECORD/XCDROAST package > > that comes with Mandrake 7 is broken, that you need to > > upgrade to the latest, preferably the tarball from the > > author. > > John > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- V3rn waz h3r3! Help! My Linux doc. heap has fallen on me, and I can't get up! ILOVEYOU is a GNUish plot!
Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles
Works fine for me - my CD-RW works as both a writer and as a CDROM. Mandrake 7.0 --- John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2000, you wrote: > > Oh, yes, I have to use cdrecord as root - is there any way to run it as > an > > ordinary user? > > > as root, "chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord" (or wherever cdrecord > is on your machine.) I had no problems with my SCSI cd > recorder being used as a CDROM *and* CDR/W in Mandrake 6.0. > It may be a problem with the SCSI emulation. > John > = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles
No, it's the Mandrake 7 version of mkisofs that's broken, though it took us some time (and lots of messages in this list) to figure that out . . . The cooker one is fixed; there's a test program on my website to see if it's causing you trouble. NOTE that it only corrupts some files, so you could be creating potentiallly-corrupt CDs and not know it if you haven't run the test program! John Aldrich wrote: > > I seem to recall reading that the CDRECORD/XCDROAST package > that comes with Mandrake 7 is broken, that you need to > upgrade to the latest, preferably the tarball from the > author. > John -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles
I seem to recall reading that the CDRECORD/XCDROAST package that comes with Mandrake 7 is broken, that you need to upgrade to the latest, preferably the tarball from the author. John
Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles
On Sat, 20 May 2000, you wrote: > Oh, yes, I have to use cdrecord as root - is there any way to run it as an > ordinary user? > as root, "chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord" (or wherever cdrecord is on your machine.) I had no problems with my SCSI cd recorder being used as a CDROM *and* CDR/W in Mandrake 6.0. It may be a problem with the SCSI emulation. John
Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles - one more thing
I forgot to mention that kudzu comes up on boot and says that the cd writer has been removed from the system. I choose "do nothing". Trevor
[expert] CD burner puzzles
I have been able to use my CDrw as a CDrom under Mdk 7.0-2, but have not been able to get it to write. It would, however, blank rewritable CD's! For various reasons, I have been unable to devote much time to solving this, and none of the suggestions this group gave me (some time ago) helped, so I resigned myself to using Win95 as my Cd burner. All that has changed, but I can't understand how! So now I'm more puzzled than ever... Here's what has happened: I installed Red Hat 6.2 on another partition, (on the other drive) and immediately after, supermount in Mdk died. The supermount enable and disable commands appear to make the required changes to fstab, but clicking on the icons brings up an empty directory - the device is not mounted. Also, a message "the kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom2 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)" appeared twice during the boot sequence. This was fixed by making the cdrom and cdrom2 entries the same. Manually creating device icons allows me to mount and unmount the cdrom and cdrw (cdrom2) now, and, amazingly, cdrecord now works! so I can burn CD's. Only one (small) hitch, I can't mount the burner until after I use the cdrecord -scanbus command. If I try to access the burner before giving that command, I get : "Could not mount" "mount: the kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom2 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)" but once I have issued a cdrecord -scanbus the mount works until I reboot the machine.If, however, I burn a cd, then try to mount the cdrw, I get "wrong major or minor number" sometimes, and sometimes it mounts??? Oh, yes, I have to use cdrecord as root - is there any way to run it as an ordinary user? My fstab file is: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/DOS_hdb1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/redhat ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 and /dev/cdrom2 links to /dev/scd0. I have hdd=ide-scsi in lilo.conf as well. I am thoroughly confused as to how installing Red Hat 6.2 on another drive could have made any changes to my Mandrake system (these persist even if I boot off the boot floppy I made at install). Since it got my burner working, I'm not complaining, mind you :-) but I would love an explanation for any of the above if anyone has one. -- Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
