Burning with k3b

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/27/06, golfer <golfbuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
>

Thanks, golfer, but I have burned some discs before with the drive and
k3b. I even burned one just a few minutes prior. I managed to burn the
disc with Gnomebaker, though.

Dotan Cohen
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