CD RW issues

[aoamrpink]

I know that I have had this problem with Ubuntu in the past, but I'm not sure how I resolved it. Currently, my machine can mount and read cds no problem, but it doesn't see my writer when I try to make a cd. Amarok can't burn to it. Xcdroast can't burn and k3b can't burn. They all just hang until I kill the aplication.

Xcdroast complains that I need to have scsi-emulation enabled in the kernel. I thought 2.6 didn't use it but I may be wrong. Any help would be very appreciated.

Troy

[Husse]

I think this has been discussed in the forum, but I can't find it
Do you have more than one CD drive?
Could be mounting in one and not the other...
You say CD-RW - what about CD-R? Any difference?

[aoamrpink]

Its just one drive, which reads disks no prob. I just can't write anything. I know this is a common thing that has been discussed before, but when I search, theres only topics about burning the isos. So I'm lost right now.
What can I do at the command line to get a little more info about whats going on?

[DealerMan]

I believe what you're experiencing is another ongoing kernel issue with burning CD's. Ever since 2.6, there are still unresolved problems with trying to burn CD's. I can burn DVD's no problem. I've tried everything worthwhile from all sorts of advice (running from command line, root, altering specific code within the program). I can't get it to work. It's my only remaining headache running Linux.

The one workaround that people recommend is running Solaris. Tried it, I couldn't even figure out how to add programs.

[Lolo Uila]

I wasn't aware there was a problem burning CDs, and I haven't had any trouble doing so. I'm running Cassandra GNOME on my fast P4 system (with dual burners), and XFCE CE on an old P3 test system I built recently. I have burned quite a few Mint CDs to pass around to friends on both systems.

I just dropped a CD-RW disc in the drive and dragged a random sample of files to it and it is burning as I type (using Brasero on the P3 XFCE test system). Okay, it finished without error.

Funny thing, too; this burner was pulled from a Windows XP computer because it was NOT working. It could not write, or even read disks. But I put it in this old system to test it and so far it is working fine.

Anyway... sorry I can't offer any help other than letting you know that CD burning is working for me. I wonder if the problem is specific to certain burners, or chipsets?

Good luck.

Aloha, Tim

[mschilling]

One idea for you is to download Nero Linux 3.0 from Nero's site. It is good for 30 days and may work on your system.

[Husse]

It's not the burning that has been discussed, but that it does not mount and that has clearly something to do with the kernel version as lolo uila knows
But as it does mount to read I don't really know any solution

[OU812]

I doubt this will help, but it can't hurt. Try changing your cdrecord permissions:

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chmod 4711 /usr/bin/cdrecord

This, of course, should be done in a terminal as root.

john

[DealerMan]

No love there either, but thanks for posting it. I don't think it's a chipset problem either, as I used to be able to burn anything & everything when Fedora Core 4 was on this box (2.4 kernel). As soon as 2.6 kernel installed, that's when my troubles began. Maybe I should go back to FC4. Just kidding!

[Husse]

Certain versions of 2.6 have been giving problems, but I doubt of the kind we're discussing here....
This is a case where so many parameters could have an influence that it becomes very hard to find the solution
I could imagine that there's a problem with the burner program - try to (re)install brasero (is in the repos)