Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: > Selon Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 17:01:29 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > > Selon Stéphane Guedon <steph...@22decembre.eu>: > > > > Le Monday 06 September 2010 17:11:17, alain.didierj...@free.fr a écrit > : > > > > > Selon Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>: > > > > > > On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > > > > > > For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as > such <snip> > > > > So, you're not using the latest drivers (scsi emultation of ata hdd)... > > > > > > > I use <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) ---> in Device Drivers > as > > > I've done in the past, and it used to work fine > > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon and select the > > appropriate SCSI drivers for your drives. There's been a few messages on > > this > > list explaining how to go about it. > > Done. Works both for cdrom unit and old IDE disk, whch now are know as sr0 > (ex hda) and sdc (wax hdc). cdrecord --checkdrive says
> But that silly k3b returns > No optical drive found. > K3b did not find any optical device in your system. > Solution : Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding > devices. > and on the terminal Finally solved, a matter of permissions for cdrecord and cdrdao, as explained in /usr/share/doc/k3b-2.0.0/PERMISSIONS.bz2. I've been fooled by this stupid error message. Thanks to all who helped, -- ~adj~