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

[Jay Loden]

Just curious if you had tried running k3bsetup to see if it can detect the 
drives, or manually adjusting the configuration of k3b to tell it the 
location of the drive.  

Finally, did you make sure that scsi emulation was on for the drive?  I'm not 
100% sure if you still have to emulate a scsi drive for a burner if you're 
using the 2.6 kernel, but I know that you used to have to enable scsi 
emulation for each drive in the kernel boot options. 

-Jay

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 01:57 pm, Van Loggins wrote:
> I was not able to resolve the problem, but I did find a solution that
> works for me.
>
> I had downloaded the Novell Linux Desktop Evaluation version (90 days
> of access to the update.novell.com update site) and as a last resort I
> tried installing it on my problem child computer system.
>
> It seems to work properly, K3B recognizes the DVD-Rom drive that is
> installed, and it recognizes the USB CD-RW drive and has it set to be
> the writer and the DVD drive as the reader.
>
> I also discovered that if you're running SUSE and you want a RPM
> version of the current version of Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird they
> have them in the /pub/projects/mozilla folder on the suse ftp site. I
> used the 9.2 versions on NLD 9 with no problems or ill effects being
> apparrent.
>
> So far I like Novell Linux Desktop, will keep the group posted on any
> problems I find or any tips or suggestions to help anyone else who is
> also running it.
>
> thanks
>
> Van
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:31:04 -0500, Van Loggins <vloggins at turbocorp.com> 
wrote:
> > 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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