mystified Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 I tried to burn a dvd .iso yesterday and k3b couldn't find my device. So I tried from command line and it also said it couldn't detect a burner. This is on my laptop and I don't think I've ever tried to burn anything with it before but it's only a year old and I don't think it's bad. Here are some things I checked. debian:/home/mystified# ls -la /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-06-11 14:56 /dev/dvd -> hdc debian:/home/mystified# dmesg | grep DVD hdc: PHILIPS CD-RW/DVD-ROM SCB5265, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Here's the interesting part. I tried to manually mount a data dvd and I got an error message that line 9 was bad. Here's my /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 0 1 /dev/hda7 /home reiserfs defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,umask=o o o 0 Line 9 is my windows partition. So I tried to mount /mnt/windows and it said it didn't exist in fstab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 This is definitely not a valid line, AFAIK: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,umask=o o o 0 You probably want something more like: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,umask=0 0 0 But that probably isn't the cause of your dvd burning issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Indeed, the fstab error is not relevant What do you get if you enter vodim dev as root? Then try again the same as plain user - I suspect it's a permissions issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 vodim - command not found. Since I fixed fstab I tried to mount my /media/cdrom0 as it's done in Debian. Nothing happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 ah, my mistake. I looked at the output again and then checked online. I can read DVD's but not burn them. But that still doesn't explain why I can't mount a data dvd and read it. And also I started k3b and it can't detect my cd-rw drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Do you have cdrkit installed? If you have, then "vodim dev" should return all optical devices' status. If not either install it, or try the older "cdrecord --scanbus" thingy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Well I tried this: mystified@debian:~$ wodim dev wodim: No write mode specified. wodim: Asuming -tao mode. wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults. Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive... Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities And it just hangs there. There is no cdrkit and when I tried cdrecord --scandisk that didn't work. But I got this. wodim: Bad Option: --scandisk. Usage: wodim [options] track1...trackn Use wodim -help to get a list of valid options. Use wodim blank=help to get a list of valid blanking options. Use wodim dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive to get a list of drive specific options. Use wodim dev=help to get a list of possible SCSI transport specifiers. mystified@debian:~$ wodim dev=help Supported SCSI transports for this platform: Transport name: sg Transport descr.: Generic transport independent SCSI Transp. layer ind.: Target specifier: bus,target,lun Target example: 1,2,0 SCSI Bus scanning: supported Open via UNIX device: not supported Transport name: ATA Transport descr.: ATA Packet specific SCSI transport Transp. layer ind.: ATAPI: Target specifier: bus,target,lun Target example: ATAPI:1,2,0 SCSI Bus scanning: supported Open via UNIX device: not supported Transport name: ATA Transport descr.: ATA Packet specific SCSI transport using sg interface Transp. layer ind.: ATA: Target specifier: bus,target,lun Target example: 1,2,0 SCSI Bus scanning: supported Open via UNIX device: not supported Transport name: RSCSI Transport descr.: Remote SCSI Transp. layer ind.: REMOTE: Target specifier: rscsi@host:bus,target,lun Target example: REMOTE:rscsi@host:1,2,0 SCSI Bus scanning: supported Open via UNIX device: not supported I also tried this as user and root: mystified@debian:~$ wodim dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive wodim: Invalid argument. Cannot open SCSI driver! For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'. For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'. For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from the wodim documentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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