CD Burner Issues

[Steve Fink]

Everyone,

I'm having trouble with my cd burner model HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC
-4240N.

This cd burner is in a Dell Latitude C840 Laptop with:
P4 2.6ghz
1Gb Ram
60Gb HDD


Here's what I've got as far as software:

Fedora Core 3 with:
Stock kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
udev-039-10.FC3.6
nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.3-6
nautilus-2.8.1-4
nautilus-media-0.8.1-3
hal-gnome-0.4.2-1.FC3
hal-0.4.2-1.FC3
hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8

I did not have this issue prior to using Fedora Core 3. As far as I can
tell Fedora Core 2 did not have hal installed.

Here's what happens:

I access Nautilus CD burner through either typing burn:/// in the
Nautilus window or by nautilus --no-desktop burn: from the command line.
I copy my files into the window and click Write to CD. Verify the
settings are correct and click Write.

The message says "Reload rewritable or blank media. Please replace the
in-drive media by a rewritable or blank media."

I've verified that the media is in fact blank by placing it in another
burner. I've also tested this as root and have the same results.  I've
set the write speed manually, I've activated burnfree ( I know the drive
supports it ) and I've verified that /dev/cdwriter points to the correct
IDE device /dev/hdb. 

Here's what I've done to test:

When I do an lshal with no media in the drive, then place a blank media
in the drive and do an lshal there's no change.  So I tried the same
test with another cd burner HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC -4241N in the
expansion slot.  This time there was a considerable amount of change in
my lshal. And the burner works fine.

These lshal outputs can be found here (the zero and 1 correspond to the
model numbers respectively):

http://www.netvantix.com/fedora/hal/lshal-no-media.txt
http://www.netvantix.com/fedora/hal/lshal-media-cdrom0.txt  
http://www.netvantix.com/fedora/hal/lshal-media-cdrom1.txt

Any help with this would greatly be appreciated.  If you do not believe
this to be a hal issue please point me in another direction.

Thanks in advance,

Steve




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