[kde-linux] k3b won't verify data

[Dale]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2008 13:59:49 Dale wrote:
>   
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 17 February 2008 13:12:34 Dale wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> BTW, have you tested it on both CD and DVD?
>>>>>           
>>>> I don't have a DVD drive yet.  I plan to get one soon tho.  I just got
>>>> to dig around on newegg and find one worth having and that I can afford.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe put that on next months todo list?  I'm disabled so I plan month
>>>> to month on this sort of thing.
>>>>         
>>> Excellent.  Let us know what happens when you get the new drive.  If
>>> nothing else has changed meanwhile but the problem disappears, it would
>>> tend to support the theory that it is hardware-related.  Conversely, if
>>> the problem doesn't disappear, then we are back to suspecting software,
>>> possibly hal.
>>>
>>> Anne
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>> I did this test based on your concerns.  I stopped the hal service and
>> that also stopped ivman as well.  I then went to K3b and burned a CD
>> with it set to verify the data.  It burned fine, even erased the CD
>> beforehand, but it did not verify the data.  It ejected the CD and then
>> sat there.
>>
>> I don't think based on this that hal is the problem.  It did the same
>> with hal stopped as it did when it was running.  Seems like K3b needs a
>> little kick.  ;-)
>>
>> What you think??
>>
>>     
> I really don't know, Dale.  Again, both hal and k3b work perfectly for many of 
> us.  To me it seems more and more likely to be hardware-specific.
>
> Anne
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I'm tending to think it is K3b and specific hardware, maybe based on age 
or the communication between the system and the drives.

Maybe I can get a DVD drive before to long and test it too.  Sort of got 
a lot going on money wise right now.

Dale

:-)  :-)