[ale] problems with Cendyne 32x10x40 USB CD-RW with SUSE, 9.2 and FC3

[James Taylor]

FYI - I'm running SuSE 9.2 with the 2.6.8-24.3-default, and I've had no
problems burning CDs.  I burned three on my thinkpad yesterday.
-jt
 
 


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
678-697-9420


>>>jloden at toughguy.net 11/19/04 5:09 pm >>> 
The funny thing is, I just read that on k3b.org yesterday and I was
going to 
send it to you, but I guess that's a moot point now :-) 
 
-Jay 
 
 
On Friday 19 November 2004 03:06 pm, Van Loggins wrote: 
>OK I have an update on the problems I was having with SUSE 9.2 and a 
>workaround that seems to work ok until the problem is fixed with the 
>2.6.8 series kernel. 
> 
>My colleague Sergio Chaves gets the credit for finding this info out, 
>he first read about it on a brazilian mail list that he subscribes to. 
>I did some more digging after talking with Sergio and I found the 
>following notice on the K3b.org website. 
> 
>"Do not use Kernel 2.6.8 
> 
>A patch that was introduced into the kernel shortly before the 2.6.8 
>release makes K3b and also the dvd+rw-tools unusable on Linux (unless 
>run as root but that is not recommended). The very important GET 
>CONFIGURATION MMC command is rejected by the kernel for reasons I 
>cannot see and writing commands like MODE SELECT also fail (K3b cannot 
>detect CD writers without it) even when the device is opened O_RDWR. 
>Until this issue has been solved I strongly recommend to stick to 
>kernel version 2.6.7. 
> 
>Update: The kernel guys are currently fixing the problem so the next 
>kernel release should work again. :) 
> 
>Update 2: The problem is NOT fixed in 2.6.8.1 
> 
>Update 3: Be aware that kernel 2.6.8 also contains the memory leak 
>which makes it impossible to write audio cds, even as root. " 
> 
> 
>I really wanted to use SUSE 9.2 Professional on my workstation at 
>work, but the problems with burning CDs on my USB CD-RW drive were 
>driving me crazy. The stock kernel for SUSE 9.2 is from the 2.6.8 
>series. I decided to try my luck with the stock kernel that comes with 
>Novel Linux Desktop version 9 which is a 2.6.5 series kernel. 
>Right now Novell has a 90 day eval download for Novell Linux Desktop 9 
>if you want to take the time and download it to get the kernel 
>(support is limited to 90 days but the ISO images are not limited in 
>any way) 
> 
>I am not sure if this is the recommended course of action, so try this 
>at your own risk, but it seems to be working ok for me. K3b sees and 
>recognizes my USB CD-RW drive where it didn't when I was using the 
>2.6.8 stock kernel for SUSE 9.2. 
> 
>According to everything I've read this problem is supposed to be fixed 
>when the 2.6.9 kernel is released so hopefully the folks at SUSE will 
>quickly make a new 2.6.9 kernel for SUSE 9.2 available as soon as it 
>is released and they have a chance to test it. 
> 
>I hope this info helps anyone who might be having the same problems I 
>have been having. 
> 
>Have a great day!! 
> 
>Van 
> 
>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:37:35 -0500, Van Loggins
<vloggins at turbocorp.com> 
wrote: 
>>Message: 1 
>>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:15:51 -0500 
>>From: Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> 
>>Subject: Re: [ale] problems with Cendyne 32x10x40 USB CD-RW with SUSE 
>>        9.2 and FC3 
>>To: Van Loggins <vanloggins at gmail.com>, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
>>        <ale at ale.org> 
>>Message-ID: <200411171615.51968.jloden at toughguy.net> 
>>Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1" 
>> 
>>Just curious if you had tried running k3bsetup to see if it can detect

>>the drives, or manually adjusting the configuration of k3b to tell it
the 
>>location of the drive. 
>> 
>>Finally, did you make sure that scsi emulation was on for the drive? 
I'm 
>>not 100% sure if you still have to emulate a scsi drive for a burner
if 
>>you're using the 2.6 kernel, but I know that you used to have to
enable 
>>scsi emulation for each drive in the kernel boot options. 
 
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