Help with cd burning

[meddinmonk]

Problem:
need to burn suse 10.0 install iso's to cds on linux box so as to install it on my laptop. every time i try and burn the image via k3b or gnome nautilis my disk drive stands till and nothing seems to be happening. k3b also freezes my system up if i try and cancel the burn which was highly annoying.

solutions tried:
turned DMA to off assuming that stood for something associated with the auto mounting that k3b gave a warning about. but it reverts back to default even after a save.
ran hdparm /dev/hdc
all is good with every post i have seen except at the end it says
HDIO_GETGEO failed: invalid argument

i can read from the drive just can burn to it

any help or suggestion would be most appreciated.
i am just starting on this linux thing to so if any complicated info is needed please write the command lines i would need to gather the information if it isnt relatively easy to find

meddinmonk

[Flight_118]

Turning DMA off will not help I think, that's some sort of optimization driver/thing for your harddisk... I'm thinking but seriously can't come upwith the correct definition...

anyway... you could try to set your write-permissions to your writer with the commands:

chmod a+rw /dev/hd*

or

chmod a+rw /dev/sg*

Where * stands for the cd/dvd-writer...

If that fails, try to install NeroLinux, I use that for burning and it works better than everything else I've tried. http://www.nero.com/
Unfortunately that program is not open-source so you would need a key for that.

[peteh]

I had the same problem until I updated the firmware on my cd-rw. Go to manufacturers web-site and see if they have up to date fw, follow the instructions and you should have no problem.