--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Konrad Karl <kk_konrad@xxxxxx> wrote: > From: Konrad Karl <kk_konrad@xxxxxx> > Subject: Re: has K3B been abandoned? > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 7:58 PM > > K3b is a piece of work... > > I have 2 CD/DVD burner drives > > Plextor $120+ > > Sony $50 > > Fedora doesn't like the Plextor...I guess > > after downloading F10 for 9.5 hours, I tried to burn a > ISO-DVD. > > The simplest operation? > > I wasted 4 blanks making 3 final copies that haved > been checked to be good!. > > The Plextor would get an error and then hang K3B > > I'd kill it with kill -9 and then the drive would > be locked up and even hung the eject command. > > I had to reboot to open the drive. Sometimes I have to > reboot to do a second operation! > > and even once the "bring things back" > facility had the #$%& thing running again. > > OH YES! an old error reported forever > > When making an ISO DVD, the verify write facility > still doesn't work > > even on the Sony drive. It says "couldn't > find a DVD to verify. > > Make things easy: if there is an error: > > > > (1) release the drive announcing ithat the DVD is no > longer blank! > > (2) eject the DVD > > (3) terminate all processes and subprocesses that stay > running(i.e. die and go away) > > (4) work on the program some more. > > try hal-disable-polling to prevent hal from messing with > the drive > while burning. > > Konrad > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines how does one do that...command line bash>hal-disable-polling or bash>hal -disable-polling -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
