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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. 

-Jay

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 01:57 pm, Van Loggins wrote:
> I was not able to resolve the problem, but I did find a solution that
> works for me.
>
> I had downloaded the Novell Linux Desktop Evaluation version (90 days
> of access to the update.novell.com update site) and as a last resort I
> tried installing it on my problem child computer system.
>
> It seems to work properly, K3B recognizes the DVD-Rom drive that is
> installed, and it recognizes the USB CD-RW drive and has it set to be
> the writer and the DVD drive as the reader.
>
> I also discovered that if you're running SUSE and you want a RPM
> version of the current version of Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird they
> have them in the /pub/projects/mozilla folder on the suse ftp site. I
> used the 9.2 versions on NLD 9 with no problems or ill effects being
> apparrent.
>
> So far I like Novell Linux Desktop, will keep the group posted on any
> problems I find or any tips or suggestions to help anyone else who is
> also running it.
>
> thanks
>
> Van
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:31:04 -0500, Van Loggins <vloggins at turbocorp.com> 
wrote:
> > my specific problem is that the drive functions ok as a reader, when I
> > put in a CD it shows up and I can read the contents of the file.
> >
> > but when I try to burn a CD using k3b it acts like the device isn't
> > there and no amount of pleading, poking, or praying can get it to work
> >
> > the dmesg output did not give me any kind of errors relating to the
> > device.
> >
> > This same burner works fine under all of the Debian based Distributions
> > that I have tried. It works ok under Red Hat ES WS 3.0 but the device
> > times out after a while if you aren't constantly using it and the system
> > has to be rebooted to get it to work again.
> >
> > does anyone have any ideas? I have had multiple problems with this 2.6
> > GHz Celeron FIC Crusader system and I'm ready to put it into storage or
> > sell it dirt cheap and start using my old slot A 700 MHz Athlon system
> > again.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Van
> >
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