[kde-linux] K3B and DVDs?

[Dennis Veatch]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 15:34, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/28/05, Liath Bodach <klgc at tds.net> wrote:
> > > > So you understand I'm at the early learning stage:
> > > > In the last few days I have expunged MS from the PC on my LAN and
> > > > installed Debian.  Being very happy with my Mac, I went with KDE to
> > > > allow a somewhat similar desktop.
> > > >
> > > > Now it's time to backup what I've done before I screw it up :-)  so I
> > > > also installed K3B to use optical media.  In my trials today I've had
> > > > no problem creating and restoring a data CD,  but I can't get K3B to
> > > > do anything with DVDs.  I've tried DVD-R and DVD-RW, and even
> > > > different brands of each (Verbatim, hp and imation).  I hate to use
> > > > umpteen CDs when one or two DVDs will do the trick :-(
> > > >
> > > > I have a Benq 32x10x40 CD R/W in an internal bay (hdc) and a Pioneer
> > > > DVD-RW DVR-103 in another internal bay (hdd).  If I load a DVD with
> > > > contents K3B lists what is on it and if I load a blank DVD it says it
> > > > knows that also.
> > > >
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> > > I have had a similar problem here on Fedora Core 4. I suspect that the
> > > problem is caused by the fact that growisofs uses /dev/hdd instead of
> > > /dev/dvd.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do about that as a test ??
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> I do not know, but since k3b is NOT a reliable program, I suggest that
> you use the command line:
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> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html
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> Paul

Hmm. I think you are *way* off base with that remark and the problems noted in 
this thread are strictly related to the distros being used. K3b *is* a 
reliable program and works just fine here burning DVDs. In fact I cannot 
remember that last time k3b made a coaster of either CDs or DVDs or the last 
time I had a problem with it.

It makes no difference to k3b which /dev growisofs uses so long as /dev/blah 
points to the correct device. Since in this thread it was
reported  /media/cdrom1 is busy, then obviously you have to find who has that 
device mounted. 

If you are using hal that is another area you should explore, particularly the 
*.fdi files and even possibly /etc/fstab if you are not using pmount. All 
those items are distro specific. As such you might want to visit your distros 
forums for the particulars.

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