On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:26, Charlie wrote: > In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get > k3b to recognise their writer. > > I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems or > systems that I build. > > Using Mandrake 9.1 > > On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on the one cable. The reader > was at the end of the cable, and later I installed and connected a writer > into the center of the cable. I then started to use k3b which recognised both > accurately. However, after some months, the reader had problems. The reader > didn't read and the system told me that no media was present. > > The reader was jumpered as the master and the writer was jumpered as the > slave. > > I couldn't boot a CD-ROM, so I altered the positions of both drives on the > cable. Put the writer at the end and the reader in the centre of the cable, > and jumpered the writer as master and just to fill up the hole and try the > reader again, still put the plug in and jumpered it as slave. > > Surprise, surprise. The reader worked again and the writer booted CD's But > when I tried to burn CD's, k3b would not recognise the writer. Saw it only as > a reader. Just in case, uninstalled k3b and then reinstalled it, but it still > registered 2 readers, no writer. > > So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but just > jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master. Invoked k3b, it > now recognised the writer as such and the reader correctly also. The reader > still worked and the writer with k3b burned CD's without and trouble. > > Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having > trouble with k3b not recognising writers> > > Charlie.
Charlie this almost sounds like a problem FreeBSD had around the time of 2.7/2.8 In order to do a media install from CD the Reader had to be slave to the drive you intended to install on. Curiosity here. If they are in the position of being two readers (as far as k3b is concerned what is the output of cdrecord -scanbus ? I'm curious if the problem is in k3b or lower down in cdrecord. James
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