On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote: > have you tried mounting by hand to see if you can, what does work? > comment out or delete the line in fstab that you have there for the time > being, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists and check its permissions, even root > can't read or write a file it doesn't have permissions for if they are not > set - the point of root is that it can always set them - which is why > sometmes it seems that root is locked out of something, then as root try > #mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > or > #mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom > > that is about as basic a mount command as you can get for a cdrom, the > latter would be if you are using ide-scsi for the writer, if neither of > these work then perhaps you have incorrectly configured ide-scsi (i'm > guessing wildly here) > > bascule > Good plus he needs to have his cdrom writer drivers running first. YOu are right about getting the drive to at least behave like a cdrom drive first. Because once he has it doing that, he can then install the appropriate drivers for cdwriting depending on his hardware. I use ide-scsi as that is what supports my hardware. When you make the cdrom dev (ie /dev/hdd) from scratch for the first time, use MAKEDEV not mkdir. But that shouldn't be necessary if you have devfs installed and running or if diskdrake already has it as /dev/hdd. You might have to recompile your kernel for that support if it isn't present. After getting the drive to at least behave like a cdrom drive, load the appropriate cd writing modules, after doing "modprobe ide-scsi" (in my case), run the command "cdrecord -scanbus". That should detect your cd writer and with that information, you should then be able to do as you were once able to do. Write cdr discs once again.
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