Can't kill process...nero 3

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I have just installed Nero 3 on OpenSuse 11, 32 bit. After registering the program, it started scanning for devices and froze. The hard disk light is on constantly. When pressing ctrl+esc it shows nero as running. I can’t kill it though. Neither will ‘kill -9’ kill it.
When I do a reboot, nero comes on again, and so does the hd light. What do I do? I tried uninstalling nero, but needless to say, no luck.
The readout from ctrl+esc is as follows:
nero
PID: 4318
User Time: 8
System Time: 5
Nice: 0
VmSize: 0
VmRss: 0
VmURss: 0
login: dave
Tracer PiD: 0
IO Priority Class: 0
IO Priority: 4

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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kill -9 $pid

Good Luck

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Sadly…that didn’t work.
But I turned the machine off and restarted and that got rid off the problem…sort of.
I uninstalled nero and re-installed it and I have the same problem again. Could this have something to do with the fact, that I’m using a SATA2 drive?
Also, in ‘My Computer’ under ‘Disk Information’ it only shows the Floppy drive. Unlike my wife’s computer (IDE drive), where I can see the various partitions and storage devices.

Is there a problem with Suse and Sata that I’m not aware of? I have only just started using linux.

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Why bother with Nero when Linux has several good native CD/DVD burning programs?

(I have a SATA burner and it works flawlessly with k3b.)

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Sorry, I didn’t mean SATA drive as in cdrom, but as in hard disk.

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I’ve been using SATA HDs for several years, also with no issues.