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akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Working with CD/DVD

EDIT: Probably posted in wrong forum, ops me..

Hello all.

Since I got most of my xfce things to work, printer I started to poke around with my CD/DVD player.

It is a Optiarc  Model: DVD RW AD-7170A and is supposed to be able to burn both cd and dvd. Last time I actually burned stuff was long ago(Wife got some super laptop from work, easier to use that one while I play around with my pc.. ;-) )

Anyways, I like it to work but there's a few quirks I don't get and hope to get some help with. When I put in a cd it shows up on the desktop. First I couldn't mount it at all and added myself to optical group(gpasswd) then it atleast  tried to mount but complained about UDF-fs: No VRS found. I solved that by adding ',iso9960' to the dvd line in my /etc/fstab. I don't know how correct it it, but it worked so...

Now I can, as a user, mount the cd, but can't unmount it again as user, it only works as root.

I also downloaded graveman to be able to actually make those cd's, and it detects all external programs. It complains over that sox don't support MP3 or OGG(How bad is that btw?). Graveman also fails to detect any cd or dvd device, and I don't know where to start look...

My goal in the end is to have my dvd working to be able to, except backups on dvd/cd, make photo presentation dvd's(like the family photo collection and so on) and homemade videos.

Any and all tips are welcome.

Outputs and lists that might be interesting below.

/etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf,iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

lsmod | grep cdrom
cdrom                  34080  1 sr_mod

modinfo sr_mod
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.21-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.ko
license:        GPL
alias:          block-major-11-*
license:        GPL
description:    SCSI cdrom (sr) driver
depends:        cdrom
vermagic:       2.6.21-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload 686
parm:           xa_test:int

cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus6:
    6,0,0    600) 'Optiarc ' 'DVD RW AD-7170A ' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM

A 'clean' recently installed Arch 0.8 + XFCE

If I missed some info, just poke me and I post it.

Last edited by akejo (2007-05-11 19:52:35)

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Working with CD/DVD

it might help if u add your user to storage group also. just an idea, which i hope it works

Last edited by dolby (2007-05-11 20:10:33)

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akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: Working with CD/DVD

it might help if u add your user to storage group also. just an idea, which i hope it works

I'll try that, thanks.

...

Ok, tried and now I could unmount the disk to. Thanks for bringing me closer to my solution.

Though I noted more problems...

I can't use the command 'eject', but I guess thats about another group or a sudo approach. Also, as I had added the 'iso9960' in dvd mountpoint in fstab to get rid of an error message, the cd(In this case a standard cdrom) is detected and mounted to /mnt/dvd. Thats not really what I wanted.. If I plug in a dvd it should be detected as a dvd and mounted in /mnt/dvd and if a cdrom  in /mnt/cdrom (or cd)

The work continues

Last edited by akejo (2007-05-11 20:17:18)

dolby

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Re: Working with CD/DVD

i suppose u have eject installed right?

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akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: Working with CD/DVD

i suppose u have eject installed right?

Yes I have, I can eject the disc as root.

dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: Working with CD/DVD

hmm mine works. if its another group or a sudo approach u might wanna try adding your user to power group as well

Last edited by dolby (2007-05-11 20:43:48)

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akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: Working with CD/DVD

I started up Graveman as root to now.

As root it find the device and adds it to 'Devices found' so I guess its a permission problem.

Can it be so simple that for all rights to update I need to restart or at least relogin to get the system to see that Im added to the optical and storage groups?

akejo

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 98

Re: Working with CD/DVD

Duh...

I exited xfce, and relogged, started graveman and it found the dvd )

Now I just have to find out more about the mount point, ie it mounts a cd-rom under /mnt/dvd.. .. and try burn a cd .)

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Working with CD/DVD

My combo cd/dvd rw works fine with no problems for me, I created a folder /media/dvdwriter and added this line to fstab

/dev/hdc                /media/dvdwriter        auto    user,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0