On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 17:50, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Victor Odhner wrote:
>
> > Roy Babin <babinr@earthlink.com> wrote:
> >> Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:26:42 -0700
> >> I can not burn to Cd. Using Suse 8,2 I followed
> > > instructions in manual.
> >> it gives me an error 255. Any suggestions? Thank you.
> >> Roy
> >
> > Hi, Roy.
> >
> > While waiting for a real wizard to come along, I can
> > help you make the question a little more answerable.
> >
> > Typical of Linux, there are multiple ways to burn CDs.
> > So it will help if you can recount the steps, or give us
> > the URL to "the manual" you were following, if it is
> > available on the Web. Otherwise its title might be
> > searchable ...
> >
> > And when it gave you error 255, what step had you just
> > taken? That is, what button did you click on what
> > window, or what command did you type in?
> >
> > A common trick is to use "copy and paste" to include
> > the gory details off your screen in the e-mail.
> > We'd rather have too many details than too few.
> >
> > Hang in there,
>
> Here is another idea. If you have an ATAPI burner and your version is
> using ide-scsi, upgrade to where you can use a straight ide module to
> read and write. Here is why. Although is is certainly possible to get
> ide-scsi working it is not possible to do so in a way that is portable,
> consistent with the way that other modules work, does not involve
> counterintuitive interactions with the boot loader and is free from
> disturbing side effects. You don't want to waste valuable mental
> capacity on learning the details of an approach that the developers
> have abandoned as an ugly kludge, especially in light of the fact that
> current versions of most distributions just work.
----
this is the reason why I was keeping my mouth shut here...I don't even
know the new magic, it just seems to work.
Best to leave to one of the SuSE people that propound the theory that
SuSE works better with various hardware and might have a clue what it is
that he is talking about (instructions for SuSE 8.2) - hopefully, they
won't remain silent for too long.
Craig
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