FC6 and cdburning
dragoran
dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Sat Jul 29 16:38:53 UTC 2006
David Nielsen wrote:
> lør, 29 07 2006 kl. 13:59 +0100, skrev Peter Robinson:
>
>>>> It does not only affect Plextor users, I count TEAC as well and I have
>>>> heard NEC also suffers. I also know of a number of users with unnamed
>>>> hardware who has hit this problem.
>>>>
>>>> This is a regression, it worked in FC4 and it was rejected for FC5 - I
>>>> was under the impression that it would indeed be a target for fixing in
>>>> FC6.
>>>>
>>> Ah, the bug report seemed filled w/ plextor users. I have a NEC at work and
>>> it works fine.
>>>
>>> The root of the problem may in fact be in the kernel, and we can't very well
>>> ship the FC4 kernel in FC6.
>>>
>>> Can you state, without a doubt, what the exact problem is and an exact way to
>>> fix it?
>>>
>> Pretty sure its not just plextos. My TSSTCorp drive in my Dell laptop
>> can't burn cds from a non root user (but haven't tried it from root
>> yet).
>>
>
> Broken drives according to the bug:
>
> 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-716AL '
> 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-755A ' '1.02'
>
PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-755A ' '1.04'
can be added to the list too :)
> 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W2410A' '1.04
> NEC 3500A.
> PLEXTOR PX-W5224A
> SCSI PlexWriter CDRW
> Plextor 716A
> PlexWriter CD-R PX-W4012A
> plextor cd-r px-w4824a
> TEAC CD-R55S
> TSSTCorp
>
> There's a clear pattern with regards to the Plextor drives, however we also see
> a number of other brands being knocked out by this. I would really love to know how
> widespread this bug is.
>
> This also makes me wonder which drive I should buy to replace my lovely Plextor drive
> while I wait for this bug to go away
I have paid for a high quality burner and its useless because of a damn
bug (regression!= that is known for mounths and no attepts to fix it
have been made :(
> - setting cdrecord suid does not seem to please
> nautilus-cd-burner in my case and I'd really love to burn DVDs in a non-ancient way.
>
>
install the FC4 cdrecord, works fine here :(
> - David
>
>
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