On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 23:52, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > Why is K3b so slow to launch in Mandrake 9.2? > > I have two CD drives, a CD-RW and a CD-R. When I launch K3b it takes an > age to launch while it tells me it is scanning drives. When it > eventually fires up I get a message box telling me that: > > "No support for ATAPI with cdrdao <snipped>
The standard ATAPI detection runs very slowly if the CDRW drive is empty. Put a CD/blank in there before you load the program. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
