Stumbling block on road to going Linux-only, the dvdrw is very odd.

[Bob King]

On Nov 19, 2007 11:59 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
> One troubleshooting mechanism I'd give a shot...
>
> Have you tried booting up with a Knoppix or Ubuntu or some other liveCD
> distro?  At least then, you can boot up and see if your DVD drive works there
> and identify to start whether it's a legitimate hardware issue or just some
> issue with the Mandriva distro kernel or something.

I ran Mint LiveCD (based on Ubuntu Feisty) and Fedora7 LiveCD on this
system before the Mandriva distro, and I know for certain that Fedora
had NO issue with the drive at all. I tried running latest Mepis
release (did not like the JMicron controller from the start), so I
know some systems have issues . It is a dual boot and runs XP (for
now) and that has no trouble with burning a DVD on that drive. It is
not the drive.

kernel is 2.6.22-9-server on the system.

Some other kits of interest:
hal is 0.5.10-0.rc2.4
cdrkit-genisoimage-1.1.6-5mdv2008.0
cdrkit-1.1.6-5mdv2008.0
cdrdao-1.2.2-6mdv2008.0

lsmod shows:
<..snip..>
ide_cd                 43424  0
jmicron                 8064  0 [permanent]
usb_storage           106180  0
ide_core              124432  3 ide_cd,jmicron,usb_storage
<..snip..>

I tried adding 'hda=cdrom' to the boot switches, and that at least let
cdrecord THINK that the drive was a cdrom, but the first time I tried
to actually burn anything, it reverted to the same information
included previously.