David Ryder wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:11 +1000, Sebastian Spiess wrote: >> David Ryder wrote: >>> Hi everybody, >>> HARDY >>> >>> I have 100% failure on burning DVDs and CDs. The programs installed are >>> Audio CD Exctractor, Brasero & Rhythmbox. >>> >>> However, if I install Wine and use Imgburn http://www.imgburn.com/ then >>> I get 100% success - which I was used to in Windows. >>> >>> But I really would prefer not to use Wine - does anybody know of other >>> Linux (Ubuntu) programs that are good or what I might be able to do to >>> get successful burns in Ubuntu, please? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> David >>> >> Hi David, >> Hi all, >> >> in the beginning I had some trouble with brasero and my Toshiba Satellite >> notebook and the combined CD/DVD drive. >> Then I came across this gentoo article >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Toshiba_Satellite_P100 where they say that >> >> "Add combined_mode=libata to kernel parameters in order to setup dma >> transfers for optical drive. Otherwise, playing or >> recording DVDs doesn't work correctly. " >> >> the strange thing I never had CD issues, only DVD burning was a problem. >> >> I would suggest to investigate this with your drives, see if you can burn >> CDs. On the other had it seems unlikely that you >> having 3 burners have trouble and are alone out there with the combined mode >> thing. :-\ >> >> Cheers, >> Sebastian > Sebastion, I think this is on the right track - I recall many moons ago > I had exactly the same problem in Windows until I forced DMA on. > > However I am having difficulty identifying the cdrom drive letter. Is > it: ls /dev/cdrom > If so I get /dev/scd0 > But when I try to see if dma is on: hdparm -d /dev/scd0 I get: > "/dev/scd0: > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device" > which, to me, says it is not scd0. > > Am I doing something wrong? > Many thanks, David > >
David, a bit late ... I have to admit I can't help you with this. Never had DMA issues, so I know nothing about it. BUt it might be worth a separate post. Cheers seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
