Thanks for your suggestion which I then did. It didn't get me pass the hurdle though. The exact same error persists.
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep magic magicdev-1.1.3-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep auto autofs-3.1.7-33 autorun-3.3-3 automake-1.6.3-1 automake15-1.5-4 automake14-1.4p6-3 autoconf-2.53-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] martin]# rpm -e magicdev-1.1.3-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] martin]# rpm -e autofs-3.1.7-33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xcdroast --- Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 3 June 2004 01:33, martin laurberg wrote: > > Dear All, > > Has anyone got a Plextor PX-708A working under > linux? > > I followed the Thomas Chungs instructions on > > http://www.xcdroast.org/ for using xcdroast with > > cdrecord.ProDVD but without success. The plextor > takes > > both DVD-R and DVD+R. I tried dvd burning of a 4.2 > GB > > iso-image on DVD-R media, both as normal user and > as > > root (from 1x to 4x speed). > > I guess the essential error is an illegal writing > > request to the drive > > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > > > > Thanks in advance for any hints, > > > > Martin > > > > System: Redhat 8.0. > > Check to see if you don't have either magicdev (used > with GNOME) or > automount (for KDE) installed. These are Red Hat > programs that > attempt to autostart a CD when you insert it. > Unfortunately, this > interferes with the burning process. > > Try removing these programs (there's no real use for > them anyway) > and try again. > > Lourens > -- > GPG public key: > http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key > ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

