cdrecord fails on 2.6.8+ kernels [was thunderbird]

[Bill Davidson]

On 21:21 Sat 16 Oct     , Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

Or you could check /etc/conf.d/hdparm.

Bill