Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

[Vincent Panel <vincent.panel@chello.be>]

I'm not part of the debian-user list, and found this (old) thread on the web 
archive.

I have exactly the same problem than Alan Chandler : I can't burn unless I 
switch to 2.4 kernel (I own a "CW078D CD-R/RW" drive). But I noticed two 
things :

- Using kernel 2.4 you can only burn ONCE !! if you try to burn a second time, 
you get approximately the same problem than 2.6 : cdrecord hangs and is 
unkillable (note : this is a cdrecord / kernel problem, not a k3B one)

- When disabling DMA (using hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdd) on the drive and using 
kernel 2.6, I have been able to blank a cdrw, just like alan said. But then, 
couldn't burn anything : like using 2.4, I could only do one operation on the 
drive.

I have flashed my drive with the latest version, and got no success (you need 
windows to do this :( ).

I still haven't tried to burn a whole CD after having rebooted and disabled 
DMA, but I guess it should work... once. This behavior can also explain why 
alan had problems to reproduce the problem. Hope this helps a bit...

Vincent.