Re: DVD fstab (and more?) problems

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:40:21 +0000
central77 <central77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK - thats gone down in my note book for future reference, thank you.

You're welcome!


> My current problem is that I now seem to have FOUR of the things: hdc
> and hdd both twice in Yast under CRROMS, and other progs randomly
> refferring to /dev/dvdram /recorder /dvd and /cdrom.

Hm, I remember seeing that in Windows but can't recall if I've ever
seen that in SUSE -- although I don't often use the 'Hardware' section
of YaST Control Center for the CDROM drives. If it was me, and I'm
known to take chances I probably shouldn't, I'd just delete all four in
YaST and then restart KDE to see if there was any difference. I don't
know where YaST looks for it's hardware info, might not even have
to restart KDE . . .


> Frankly, I can live with the fact I have to use the rom drive to
> watch a movie - whats bugging me now is that the new LG drive spits
> out coasters when I feed it my super cheap Tesco blanks (as does Nero
> in 2k, so its not K3B) and wants to be fed the more expensive TDKs
> I've got here.

I seldom buy the super cheap disks, or even the really cheap disks,
having learned my lesson years ago on floppies. I keep CD and DVD
re-writables around for testing and temporary backups and such and a
fairly good quality of CDs/DVDs for when I want more permanent storage.


> Still at least everything works at the moment, and I've got just that
> little bit further along the learning curve.

Every little bit helps, and makes the next problem area a bit easier to
solve. You will learn more from fixing problems -- which is why I don't
usually worry about trying something that might break the system; it's
just one more chance to learn something more . . . :-)


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