Re: i/o error dvd+rw-tools
I'm perfectly comfortable dowloading and compiling from source.
Most of the time, that's what I do anyways. However, since the
version if cdrecord I have is specifically an unsupported one (I'm just
a user stuck in the middle here), and SuSE uses /media/whatever and the
supported versions of cdrecord require /dev/whatever (that's the gist
of what I understood from the freshmeat.net postings -- I got bored
reading the postings b/c of all the animousity....I just want to get
dvd burning to work so I can burn some iso's and try some other distros
that are more FOSS, etc.). I am concerned that if I compile from
source, etc. I could break what I have and be left with no cd or dvd
burning functionality whatsoever. I'm not one of the SuSE
developers, so I have no idea what all they customized or what I should
watch out for.
I've tried using hdparm to view/adjust the settings on the drive (I
used -c to up the mode to 32-bit...it was set at 16-bit...that seemed
strange to me). That didn't really affect the outcome -- still
getting coasters.
Are there any other options I could try?
Charles
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