Re: [SLE] Things I learned..
From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 11/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:23:52 +0000 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
> 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.
>
My favourite is xcdroast, very simple and straightforward to use either
with scsi(drives), ide-scsi or ide-cd compiled kernels. Yesterday I
thought I'd try webCDwriter again after a long break from it, but for
some reason I can't get the options to change, a pity as once I had a
problem that caused it not to work on the machine with the cdwriter, I
nfs mounted the directory to my laptop, fired webCDwriter up on the
laptop and burned the urgently needed Solaris patches back across the
network. It served me as an excellent tool that made the cdwriter
accessible to all machines on the network.
> I found a DVD-RW writer that is Dual-Layer writing capable for $60 at
> MicroCenter. But Dual-Layer media is $8 a platter at the cheapest place
> I have found. So far I have written CDs of the 9.2 set easily. Fast
> too, 2.5 min from iso image. Haven't tried DVDs yet.
>
I don't know if the 9.2 cdrecord supports DVD's, but there is a verion
available that does.
> I got NERO with the writer, so I tried it out with the SUSE 9.2 CD1 and
> NERO immediately went to the I-Net (thanks Zonealarm) and it reported
> "Source Copyrighted - Writing aborted" No wonder that there are no
> Script-Kiddies selling copies of SUSE 9.2 on eBay anymore. Bravo
> SUSE-Novell! M$ media player checks home, too.
>
I don't class myself as particularly MS literate, but up to a few years
ago when I tried using Nero to burn Solaris CD's, it was confusing and
we lost many CD's because of the 8+3 filenames thing.
> DVD RW media is getting very cheap; all but Dual-Layer. I just can't
> bring myself to experiment on $8 media.
>
Wait a bit, there are 10, 15 and 20GB DVD's coming, so the price of the
current ones should fall dramatically.
> 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.
>
Three weeks ago I bought an enclosure with a USB 2.0 and 2 firewire
interfaces, I put a 120GB HD into it, partitioned it, mkreiserfs and
mkswap on it via the USB, I'm now using it as backup plugged into the
laptop.
> 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
>
I wonder if all the needed modules are there in lsmod. Some people use
k3b without problems, but in my case with bleeding edge kernels,
xcdroast has never missed a beat.
Regards
Sid.
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