[Debburn-devel] LG CH08LS10 not burning CDs

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> Ok i must admit defeat.

Hey. You sacrificed yourself to identify the bug.
Now use the next of your game lives and apply the
kill shot. :))


> Went into single user mode
> and drive burned with no problem. So back to kde, removed
> device-manager 1.1.1 plasmoid , replaced it with device notifier and
> now i can burn....

The culprit collection has a new item.
"plasmoid" ... that sounds like Slime Blob From
Outer Space. 

Now we only have to catch Richard's gremlin.
I wonder what's its name.
How about "Myxomycetes" or "Foggworm" ?
Windows has virus, we have slime demons.


> Thank you for entertaining my stubbornness as to this being a
> hardware issue. The only thing i dont get is why the sony drive
> worked?

The collision problem is a delicate bug.

Some drives can stand molestation, some don't.
Some Linux distros work for weeks with
hald-addon-storage activated before the first
coaster happens.

One can try to provoke it by performing
during the ongoing burn run:

  while date ; do sleep 3 && dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 count=1 of=/dev/null ; done

(loop to be ended by pressing Ctrl+C)

We did notice the influence of firmware changes.
I could now imagine that the drives get less
stable by allowing some gesture which Windows
insists to perform.


What about DVD burn speed ?
Better now ?
(That is not a typical effect of collision.
 We would need high frequency molestation for
 that. Therefore my thought about mad ACPI.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas