never tried to copy a cd or dvd using it.
Is the device seen in the usb bus? i.e. /proc/bus/usb/devices and is there any special driver module that was being loaded that somehow is now lacking? i.e. sometimes things like event device drivers or other rare things need to be loaded prior to scanning the bus on boot or with things like cdrecord
There are some graphical utilities to look at the usb devices in the usbutils Debian package.
Is the DVD device on when you boot or do you also hot-plug the device? I am sorry if I missed that part - but is the DVD burner powered from additional AC or from the bus itself?
Is there something else - some other application / process that is trying to use/access the device on bootup ? i.e. thinking that is is going to play/view some multimedia file or the like?
And lastly is sg and scsi_mod modules loaded, or could it be that you are only able to use it's cdrom reader capacity and not the dvd burning ability due to some permissions/access problem.
What does the devices section from the k3b configuration show i.e. are you running it with group permissions set for something like the dvd or cdrom group?
You might also take a look at /var/log in syslog to see how and what is being loaded when you plug the device in 'tail -f /var/log/syslog'
Once you get the device loaded you might try running k3b from the command line and take a look at the output - you can see the options with 'k3b --help-all'
I hope this gets you at least some more leads in getting it to work.
Ismet
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Well, I have gotten k3b installed with everyone help. The first few times I ran it, it was missing files
like growisofs, but the apt-get/yum system fixed that.
Then I ran k3b with a standard cd-rom in the dvd drive. All was looking good. The DVD drive was listed, and when I clicked on the drive, I could see the cdrom contents. I wanted then to put in a blank DVD. So I right-clicked, and selected "unmount", then "eject".
That was when my server froze up. No mouse movement. Nothing. I rebooted, and now the drive is missing. Furthermore, during the bootup process, when kudzu is
looking for new hardware, it seems that the screen
gives a slight flicker that I don't remember before.
If I run lspci, I can see the USB 2.0 controller card that I added to run the DVD writer. But the cdrecord --scanbus doesn't show the drive like it used to. And k3b doesn't show it.
I think this is a hardware problem. But I'm note sure if it is the controller or the DVD drive. (The drive was a SONY DRU ~720 and seemed of good quality).
Any thoughts?
Thanks Kevin
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