Guest Mr B Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi, I have a problem with the cd/dvd drive on my recently installed Mandriva 2008.0 If I try to write data to it I get this message - "Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''." First noticed it when I was trying to do a backup through Mandriva control centre - the backup fails with: - "Error: Does not appear to be recordable media!" Drive shows up in Konquerer and will read data OK, but not write. Works OK with other distros and livecds etc If I put a blank cd or dvd in the drive it asks what to do with it and recognises it as recordable media - but I am unable to use k3b or any other means of writing to it. Any ideas? Thanks Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Do you have things like dvd+rw-tools and cdrkit installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr B Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Thanks for the reply scarecrow. I have both installed - but not sure what to do with them.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) If they are installed then you shouldn't have to do anything further with them. The applications that use those packages will know and will do what ever needs to be done to use them. Clue:-.... Linux is not windows so things are not done the windows way. :D :D :D Cheers. John. By the way.......a warm welcome to you from all of us here at MUB. J. Edited January 21, 2008 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Umm, do you try burning the disk via Konqueror? This is not possible by default- it needs a third party kio module which has been abandoned ages ago (last version was present in Mandriva 2007 or so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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