cdrecord fails on 2.6.8+ kernels [was thunderbird]

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:32:02 -0600, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, this gets curiouser by the minute. I just upgraded my laptop to
> the latest 2.6.9-rc4, and burning a cd is no problem! Same versions of
> cdrtools, glibc (both have nptl), and gcc on my desktop system, but
> different results. Different writers, of course. The laptop has a
> DVD/CDRW, and the desktop has a plain ole CDRW.
> 
> This is maddening!
> -- 

Solved. 

For some reason my desktop system enables DMA for /dev/hdc
automatically; the laptop system does not do this. cdrecord appears
not to be able to tolerate this setting on 2.6.8+ kernels, but it
works ok on 2.6.7 and earlier. I'll just add 'hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdc' to
my local.start file.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

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