cdrom/burner woes (mounting issues,and bruring issues)

[Bruce DA Man]

I have 2 cdrom devices. One is a cdburner. The other a cdrom. Upon a fresh install of suse 8.1 with both devices installed I recieve 2 icons on my Desktop, CD-ROM and CD-ROM2. CDROM2 points to /dev/cdrecorder. CD-ROM points to /media/cdrom.

Now when I mount CD-ROM, or CD-ROM2 I always get what media is inserted in my regular cdrom. Shouldn't one of these show my burners media contents?

When using K3B (burning tool) it sees the burner. But cannot acess the burner to burn to the cd.

Here is my fstab.

/dev/hdb3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hdb2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

[liquidfx13]

your burner needs to emulate as a scsi device in order for it to work properly.......here's my working fstab (i use eroaster to burn)

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0


you will also need to change your lilo.conf file and add the following to your default boot....here's mine so you can see what i am talking about....(label=Linux is my default)

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=Win2K
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe



change those lines so they look like mine and i believe it will work properly......if you aren't able to burn cd to cd you will also need to emulate your regular cdrom as scsi....if those things don't help post again and we'll see what the problem is

[bwkaz]

Also, what does cdrecord -scanbus tell you, if anything?

[Bruce DA Man]

I use grub its the default for suse 8.1 I believe.

How do iget the screen that show all the info on boot up? I mean the list of itmes that linux is starting up. I need that to get what device my burner is, unless there is another way. I know it secondary master.

then I make a back up of fstab edit it so the burner entry is

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom etc etc

Is this correct?

cdrecord -scanbus returns

cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
0,0,0 0) 'E-IDE ' 'CD-ROM 56X/AKH ' 'A80 ' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-24102B ' '5S54' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *


teh liton is the burner

Bruce

[mdwatts]

Apparently SuSE reverses the cdrecorder with the cdrom.

I actually posted this original thread (http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72043&highlight=cdrecorder) in another a couple of days ago to solve the same problem.

Hint: Try a forum search before posting.

Just a suggestion... :)

Usually you will find the answer to your problem a lot faster than waiting for someone to reply.

[Bruce DA Man]

Jeez. Smart peeps here. Thats so worked. Dude you answered what a lot of other peeps couldn't going to post the link on another site I posted to get help.

Thanx

Bruce