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308275 2004-12-28 08:17:00 Is anyone else having trouble with FC3 and CD burning?

I tried Xcdroast and the in-built Nautilus burner to no avail. Xcdroast seems to come up with two cd devices (DVD player and my DSE burner) but refuses to write to it. I have appended "hdd=ide-scsi" to the grub menu.lst. I have a line (automatically put there at boot time) in my fstab "dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder ...."

Message seems to be saying it cannot find the device (even though there is a nice burner icon in Xcdroast). This is confirmed by the results of "cdrecord -scanbus" which shows my DVD player only.

Any help would be appreciated. This is the only problem I have come across in FC3 - it is great otherwise so I would like to get this sorted!
johnd (85)
308276 2004-12-28 08:19:00 Install K3b off the install discs by using Add/Remove applications. It is dead easy to use and is a Nero clone. I have no trouble with FC3 and CD/DVD burning using this application. :) Jen (38)
308277 2004-12-28 08:39:00 I have appended "hdd=ide-scsi" to the grub menu.lst. I have a line (automatically put there at boot time) in my fstab "dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder ...."Hmm ... why did you add this line to the grub.conf? The 2.6 kernel doesn't need =ide-scsi. This may be behind the entry in fstab as well.

The CD/DVD devices should be listed similar to this in fstab

/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder1
Jen (38)
308278 2004-12-28 08:51:00 Jen K3b - looks to be a great piece of software - but no writing device detected. I put the append in due to something I read elsewhere trying to solve my problem. Everything worked fine in RH9.

I will remove the append and see if that solves the problem. Nothing would burn before or after the change with Xcdroast so we will see how K3b goes!
johnd (85)
308279 2004-12-28 08:54:00 You will need to reboot for the changed fstab to be re-read. RH9 used the 2.2 series kernel IIRC, which needed the scsi emulation for the CD drives but from the 2.6 kernel onwards, this is no longer required. Jen (38)
308280 2004-12-28 09:08:00 You are quite right about scsi emulation - someone on Fedora Forum didn't know what they were talking about!

Some progress but not there yet. We know have hdd as /media/cdrecorder and K3b has an icon for my Cyberdrive. But when I come to write there is no device still.
johnd (85)
308281 2004-12-28 09:12:00 I have now got a response for the CD-RW with "cdrecord -scanbus".

Have just tried as root just in case - doesn't work either. There is a drop down box for recording devices with K3b - nothing available despite it showing as an icon in the system file tree.
johnd (85)
308282 2004-12-28 09:15:00 Just try this:
Go ALT-F2 and enter in k3b, and under Options>> select "run as a different user" and enter in root's password - OK. Then look under Settings > Configure K3b > click on the Devices Icon and see whether it lists the devices as able to write.

This is to see whether it is a user permission issue.

[edit] - just saw your new post - try this anyway and see what info it gives under devices for writing etc.
Jen (38)
308283 2004-12-28 09:56:00 Can't see any Options menu.

Anyway seem to have found the problem - cdrdao was not installed and is needed by k3b to write.

So now the writing process starts and all locks up. Message is:

System
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K3b Version:0.11.14
KDE Version: 3.3.0-5 Red Hat
QT Version: 3.3.3

cdrecord
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/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512

cdrecord comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=32 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -multi -xa -tsize=72503s -

mkisofs
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72503
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.

mkisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid photos -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.14 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.14 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-johnsd/k3bbSEYPb.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-johnsd/k3bhtVUua.tmp -joliet -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-johnsd/k3bUD0i4b.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-johnsd/k3bv13rwa.tmp /home/johnsd/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/
johnd (85)
308284 2004-12-28 10:13:00 I remember under RH9 the blank CD would automount and I would have to do a command line umount before attempting to writing. With RC3 an icon appears on the screen saying "Blank CD-R disk" but there is nothing to umount according to the mount command. The icon stays even after the cd is removed. johnd (85)
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