[ale] problems with Cendyne 32x10x40 USB CD-RW with SUSE 9.2 and FC3

[Van Loggins]

my specific problem is that the drive functions ok as a reader, when I 
put in a CD it shows up and I can read the contents of the file.

but when I try to burn a CD using k3b it acts like the device isn't 
there and no amount of pleading, poking, or praying can get it to work

the dmesg output did not give me any kind of errors relating to the device.

This same burner works fine under all of the Debian based Distributions 
that I have tried. It works ok under Red Hat ES WS 3.0 but the device 
times out after a while if you aren't constantly using it and the system 
has to be rebooted to get it to work again.

does anyone have any ideas? I have had multiple problems with this 2.6 
GHz Celeron FIC Crusader system and I'm ready to put it into storage or 
sell it dirt cheap and start using my old slot A 700 MHz Athlon system 
again.

Thanks in advance.

Van

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