On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:09, Charlie wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 01:08 pm, many eyes noted that James Sparenberg wrote: > > <snip> > > > 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 > > Sorry James, because I didn't know to do that and even now don't know what it > shows; I didn't try that to find out whatever information it displays. But > here is is as it is now, though it might be no help :- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-40125S ' 'ZS0N' Removable CD-ROM > 0,1,0 1) * > 0,2,0 2) * > 0,3,0 3) * > 0,4,0 4) * > 0,5,0 5) * > 0,6,0 6) * > 0,7,0 7) * > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# > > Charlie.
hmmm it would seem that in this configuration cdrecord is able to find the drive ok. Now I'm going to ask the group as a whole. Given the above should Charlie submit a bug on k3b? James
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