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
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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.
You might want to try ide-scsi emulation. I just installed an IDE CD-Burner as secondary slave and xcdroast wasn't very complimentry about it being IDE and made these recommendations (substitute hdd for hdc etc depending on your IDE device);
Put this in your /etc/modules.conf
options ide-cd ignore='hdd'
And this in /etc/grub.conf
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
This in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
insmod ide-scsi insmod sg
And finally link the scsi device to /dev/cdrom1
ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/crom1 ls -l /dev/crom1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 14 21:54 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scd0
HTH
Pete
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