Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Joerg Schilling
>> <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
>> > Your media was either accepted after several tries by the drive for unknown
>> > reasons and is now usable in general again or you are observing a problem
>> > caused by "hald". Note that hald does not care about the CD/DVD/BD Writing
>> > process and interrupts it. This is why hald may cause any strange result.
>>
>> Would a HAL preprobe FDI like this prevent it from interfering with burning?
>
> Could you explain what this means?

I was just thinking if HAL is instructed to ignore the device maybe it
won't bother it any more (if that's even the cause of Dale's problem).
Not a fix but a workaround. Maybe not even a workaround. :)