Hi all, Some time back, just before I upgraded to 2006, I put an old TV card I had lying around in my Mandriva machine. My motherboard only has one analog audio input port, so I unplugged the audio cable from my DVD burner. I never watch movies on my PC (and don't know if the audio cable is needed for this anyway), and music CDs play fine without it.
Around the same time, the burning of DVDs stopped working. Specifically, k3b reports success, but movie DVDs I burn will not play back, and on data DVDs I can only read the first 280MB or so of data, then nothing but I/O errors. CD burning, on the other hand, works just fine for both audio and data CDs. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly when it stopped working, as I was assuming that they had really burnt successfully. It wasn't until I needed a backup disk (of course!) that I discovered the problem. I used a grounded wrist strap, so I'm pretty sure I didn't damage my drive while I was messing with the cable (and if I did, chances are it would be completely toasted). I tried two different brands of disks, one DVD-R and one DVD+R, same result. I tried limiting the speed to 2x, same result. I haven't seen anything on the list about k3b DVD burning being totally broken in 2006. I haven't tried switching the cable back yet, as that's a bit of a pain, and it seems unlikely to be the solution. So I thought I'd check here first. Should I bother to switch the cable and see, or just chuck the burner and buy a new one? Ron -- Opinions are mine. Don't blame anyone else. Rely on them at your own risk. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
