On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > > I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer > > (/dev/hdd). > > > under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The > > DVD writer will recognise one. > > > Any ideas? > > Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There are > some GUIs, but you can send a report with: > > hal-find-by-capability --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device > > I suppose it's important to have a line with "storage.cdrom.cdrw = > true", then we can check "storage.removable.media_available" ... > > Franklin > Thanks for the ideas Franklin. This looks like it might open a can of worms ...
First Etch: hal-find-by-capability finds the DVD-RW drive but does not find the Plextor CD-RW drive (yet Etch works the CD-RW OK!). Second Lenny: hal-find-by-capability finds the Plextor CD-RW, but not the DVD-RW! With no blank media in the CD-RW, it reports " storage.removable.media_available = false (bool)" With blank media present, it reports " storage.removable.media_available = true (bool)" Exactly what we would hope for I think. But GNOME seems not to recognise this. I have just written a CD image under Lenny using wodim. What now? Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
