Burning with k3b

[golfer]

On 5/25/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to burn a disc with k3b. I always burn as root to avoid
> problems. (the only think I dare do as root). I have it set to
> automatic burn mode, x24 speed, although both the burner (LiteOn) and

Some LiteOn drives are not well supported by ide-cd with dma, so the
drive times out when it's accessed and the kernel will eventually turn
off dma.  The kernel ide-cd has a blacklisting of some drives (to
automatically disable dma), but the author doesn't know all the drives
with the problem. If this is your problem, you have to disable dma on
that drive.  My LiteOn is so bad that I can't even start k3b with dma
enabled.  I put a command at the end of /etc/hdparm.conf to disable it
on boot, as follows:

command_line {
       hdparm -q -c1 -q -d0 /dev/hdc
}

You can also turn it off without rebooting, by "sudo hdparm -d0
/dev/hdc" before trying to use it.

HTH,
regards,