[SLE] Things I learned..

From: Peter B Van Campen (peterb_at_vancampen.org)
Date: 11/28/04

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:06:52 -0600

    Hi,

    While trying to make a usable CD burning sys for my 9.2 I have learned
    many things.

    The key to making K3b a usable solution still eludes me, but the failure
    msg actually asked me to send detailed feedback to a SUSE developer who
    has modified 'cdrecord' and he asks that we not bother the actual
    developer. OK, awaiting some more info ...

    Burnatonce for XP is a good, solid and intuitively easy solution. So, we
    have something to shoot for.

    I found a DVD-RW writer that is Dual-Layer writing capable for $60 at
    MicroCenter. But Dual-Layer media is $8 a platter at the cheapest place
    I have found. So far I have written CDs of the 9.2 set easily. Fast
    too, 2.5 min from iso image. Haven't tried DVDs yet.

    I got NERO with the writer, so I tried it out with the SUSE 9.2 CD1 and
    NERO immediately went to the I-Net (thanks Zonealarm) and it reported
    "Source Copyrighted - Writing aborted" No wonder that there are no
    Script-Kiddies selling copies of SUSE 9.2 on eBay anymore. Bravo
    SUSE-Novell! M$ media player checks home, too.

    DVD RW media is getting very cheap; all but Dual-Layer. I just can't
    bring myself to experiment on $8 media.

    I found a USB 2.0 external HD at FRYs for $60 after rebate (boy oh boy
    the arrival of SATA drives is going to flood the market with ATA
    drives). My 9.2 is on a USB 2.0 MB. When I plugged the drive into the
    USB socket, SUSE performed flawlessly. Fast too. YASTs H/W report shows
    the drive as a WD 7,200 rpm, 160MB stndrd cache drive manufactured in
    Oct 2004. I am seriously considering an ordinary data copy of
    non-compressed data; perhaps via rsync in cron.

    Now if I can only get K3b to use my burner. I sees it w/o ide-scsi at
    boot time. K3b correctly reports the burners features. but cdrecord
    refuses to run it.

    Best to all. ................... PeterB 

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