Can't burn CD when hald is running

[Silas De Munck]

On Sunday 04 July 2004 19:02, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for reporting this and sorry for the lag,
>
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 19:41 +0200, Silas De Munck wrote:
> > I'm trying to get ivman running to automount cdrom's. But had a serious
> > problem when I tried to burn a cd with this setup. I found out the
> > problem was not ivman but hald so I think this is the right place to ask
> > about.
> >
> > When Burning starts I get this in dmesg:
>
>  (snip)
>
> > I hope this can be solved...
>
> Me too - I've had no problems burning CD's with hald running so far
> (knock on wood), here's a few questions
>
>  o  CD-Burning only fails when hald is running, right?

That's right.

>
>  o  Try this commandline
>
>        hal-set-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_22_0 --key
> storage.media_check_enabled --bool false
>
>     with the proper UDI for your CD burner of course. This will
>     disable media checking, which I think is what may be causing the
>     problem.

It solved the problem, writing goes fine now. 
Can I make this permanent by writing a fdi-file for it? 
Maybe it should be "false" by default, because both my scsi-burners have this 
problem. Is it possible to change the storage.media_check_enabled to false 
only while burning?

>
> Let us know, Thanks,
> David

Thanks for your help!

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