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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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