[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[Steve Baker]

Rick Cook wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Have you checked permissions on the device k3b is pointing to for DVDs. We 
> are still using SUSE 9.3 on one of our "lab" networks at work. To 
> identical machines with theoretically identical installations of SUSE 9.3 
> work differently. Mine could write DVDs and CDs with equal ease. The 
> orther could write CDs but, similar to yours, would not detect DVD media. 
> It turned out that running k3b with root privileges made the DVD media 
> magically appear.
>   
It doesn't seem to be permissions - the device is /dev/hdc - and SuSE 
has created
symlinks to that from /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrecorder, /dev/dvd and 
/dev/dvdrecorder.
/dev/hdc has wide-open permissions - and I get the same results running 
as root
as I do as a normal user.
> If you still live in Cedar Hill (and can't get the DVD written soon), I 
> can meet you somewhere and give you an openSUSE DVD. You want i586 or 
> x86_64?
>   
Actually, I'm down in RoundRock - we're in the process of relocating 
down here.
Thanks for the offer - but I need to get the DVD burning thing down 
anyway.  If
all else fails, my kid has a DVD writer in his laptop that'll do - but 
he's at college
(UT Dallas) - so that's a 400 mile round-trip!

If all else fails, I'll do the SuSE 11.0 install from their "Mini CD" 
and do an install
over the network.   I did that with my laptop last week.  It worked fine 
- but it took
~25 hours even on a fast net connection (6500 kbps TimeWarner).  Sadly, 
my laptop
doesn't have a DVD burner either.

  -- Steve.