CD Burner Problems - Possible solution

[Steve Fink]

Everyone,

Or at least everyone having issues with CD burning...

I've been tracking a problem with my CD burner.  It seems to be due to
the fact that the CD burner is attached to the same IDE as my primary
HDD.  Apparently according to David Zeuthen from the hal development
team, hal does not poll the IDE channel assigned to the HDD for media
change.  So the drive's media state never changes according to any
software getting it's info from hal.

So for those people having trouble with a burner slaved to a HDD, if you
can ( I cannot due to the laptop ), simply re-arrange your IDE devices
to have your burner on a separate IDE channel from your HDD's and you
should be able to work again.

I've filed this new info with the nautilus-cd-burner folks to see if
they can work around this somehow.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161380

Here is some additional stuff to read why hal doesn't poll the same IDE
as your HDD.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148

Hope this helps.

Best,

Steve