<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Danny, An additional point to note: Nautilus-cd-burner used to contain code to provide this info when HAL failed.  That's where I got the code from.  This was last present in N-C-D 2.14.3 (last date in the sources is 31/07/06): the next version was (as reported in http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus-cd-burner/) 2.15 from 22/08/06.  Debian Stable uses NCD 2.14.3. Debian Testing uses 2.18.2, from 29/05/07, so you have not actually had very long to discover that there are quite a number of folks out there with old CD drives that used to work and that will no longer do so. I chose to add the functionality to HAL rather than to put it back into N-C-D because it seemed a cleaner and more general place to put it. I believe another drive with the problem is the TEAC CD-W516EB. I have also checked Fedora: there is an issue of Fedora Core 5 in October last year that was still using N-C-D 2.14.3. Centos 4 (RHEL4?) has a very old version of N-C-D, while Centos 5 might have problems as it uses 2.16 (available from Sept 2006 at the earliest). Regards David <blockquote><hr>From: david_castelow@hotmail.com To: danny.kukawka@web.de; hal@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: RE: Patch for old CD-RW and DVD drives Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:33:35 +0100 Not sure about age, and I'll admit my CD drive is old, but I believe the patch works for the following devices: N.E.C. ND1300A TEAC CD-W512EB LG CD-RW CED-8080B (Mine's the LG, others from having supplied patch to Ubuntu and getting reports from others). David > From: danny.kukawka@web.de > To: hal@lists.freedesktop.org > Subject: Re: Patch for old CD-RW and DVD drives > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:22:26 +0200 > CC: david_castelow@hotmail.com > > On Donnerstag, 16. August 2007, David Castelow wrote: > > Danny, > > > > Just wondering if you (or anyone else active in HAL development) had any > > views on the patch I sent to the list at the beginning of August? > > > > It was to fix a problem with old CD-RW drives, where the disc is not > > recognised. > > In case you were concerned about the format of the attached data, I've put > > it in line this time, as it is quite short. > > > > The change is based on code in the equivalent file from an old version of > > Nautilus-CD-Burner, also originally by Andy Polyakov. > > About how old devices do we speak? Which devices do support only MMC-1 ? > > Danny <hr>Are you the Quizmaster? <a href="http://specials.uk.msn.com/brainbattle" target="_blank">Play BrainBattle with a friend now! </a> </blockquote> <hr />Are you the Quizmaster? <a href='http://specials.uk.msn.com/brainbattle' target='_new'>Play BrainBattle with a friend now! </a></body> </html>