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cmlr

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From: Rochester, NY, USA

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 99

Write to a CD [SOLVED]

I just installed Arch Linux on a Dell desktop with a CD-RW/DVD drive.  I'm having trouble writing to the CD.  I tried:

1.  k3b, it gave me a message "No CD/DVD writer found."

2.  Following the advice on the Wiki under "CD Burning Tips", I installed cdrtools, and typed

cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc xxxx.iso

where "xxxx" was the name of the file.  It gave me this message:

wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
scsidev: 'ATA:/dev/hdc'
devname: 'ATA:/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
wodim: No such file or directory.
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.

I thought I needed a SCSI driver, so I tried "pacman -Ss scsi" and got

current/mt-st 0.9b-1
    Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control
extra/sg3_utils 1.23-1
    Generic SCSI utilities
extra/smartmontools 5.36-2
    Control and monitor Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
    (S.M.A.R.T.) enabled ATA and SCSI Hard Drives.

So I installed sg3_utils, but still failed to write to the CD.

Thanks,
Carl

Last edited by cmlr (2008-06-20 00:23:47)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Write to a CD [SOLVED]

Add yourself to the optical group, that's all.

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cmlr

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From: Rochester, NY, USA

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 99

Re: Write to a CD [SOLVED]

Actually, I rebooted and then everything worked.

Thanks for your patience,
Carl