FC6 and cdburning

[David Nielsen]

lør, 29 07 2006 kl. 13:59 +0100, skrev Peter Robinson:
> > > It does not only affect Plextor users, I count TEAC as well and I have
> > > heard NEC also suffers. I also know of a number of users with unnamed
> > > hardware who has hit this problem.
> > >
> > > This is a regression, it worked in FC4 and it was rejected for FC5 - I
> > > was under the impression that it would indeed be a target for fixing in
> > > FC6.
> >
> > Ah, the bug report seemed filled w/ plextor users.  I have a NEC at work and
> > it works fine.
> >
> > The root of the problem may in fact be in the kernel, and we can't very well
> > ship the FC4 kernel in FC6.
> >
> > Can you state, without a doubt, what the exact problem is and an exact way to
> > fix it?
> Pretty sure its not just plextos. My TSSTCorp drive in my Dell laptop
> can't burn cds from a non root user (but haven't tried it from root
> yet).

Broken drives according to the bug:

'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR   PX-716AL '
'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR   PX-755A  ' '1.02'
'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R   PX-W2410A' '1.04
NEC 3500A.
PLEXTOR PX-W5224A
SCSI PlexWriter CDRW
Plextor 716A
PlexWriter CD-R PX-W4012A
plextor cd-r px-w4824a
TEAC CD-R55S
TSSTCorp

There's a clear pattern with regards to the Plextor drives, however we also see
a number of other brands being knocked out by this. I would really love to know how
widespread this bug is.

This also makes me wonder which drive I should buy to replace my lovely Plextor drive
while I wait for this bug to go away - setting cdrecord suid does not seem to please
nautilus-cd-burner in my case and I'd really love to burn DVDs in a non-ancient way.

- David