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aeneas

Member

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 14

Can't use my CDRW

Well, it's simple - I can't burn CDs, either from nautilus or graveman.
Running graveman -s gives:

umount: /dev/hdc is not mounted (according to mtab)
umount: /dev/hdb is not mounted (according to mtab)

However, it does list the DVD drive on hdb as a detected device, but not the CDRW on hdc.
My fstab:

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy     vfat    user,,noauto,unhide        0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,unhide 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/dvd        auto    ro,user,noauto,exec,unhide 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap  swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /     ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

I have tried various options here, even commenting both hdb/c lines (mounting/ejecting still worked in gnome because of the g-v-m).
Here's what cdrecord -scanbus gives:

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-ARCH
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) *
        0,1,0     1) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-116 ' '1.09' 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) *
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'TEAC    ' 'CD-W540E        ' '1.0F' Removable CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) *
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *
        1,5,0   105) *
        1,6,0   106) *
        1,7,0   107) *

In rc.conf:

...
MODULES=(!usbserial 8139too uhci_hcd usb-storage sd_mod ide-scsi sr_mod)
...

I've put hdc=ide-scsi in /boot/grub/menu.lst, no change.
Here's output from dmesg | grep '^hd':

hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0109, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: CD-W540E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
# harddrives....
hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(66)
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)

I've ran out of ideas here...

shbang

Member

Registered: 2005-10-03

Posts: 76

Re: Can't use my CDRW

I was having a problem in graveman where it was detecting my cdrw as a dvd (with no write capability).  I went into file -> preferences -> devices and manually added a device (/dev/cdrw in my case).  I also right clicked on the device graveman detected and removed it.

aeneas

Member

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 14

Re: Can't use my CDRW

I tried adding it manually and it seemed ok, but when i tried to burn something i got "Operation failed" error.
It has to be something else, so that i can use nautilus as well.

sven

Member

Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

Re: Can't use my CDRW

I have the same "Operation failed" error in graveman at the end of the burning process, but CDs are still successfully burnt.