On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 09:54, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Subject says all. I'm trying to get K3b to see my CD-ReWriter. When I
> run K3b_setup it finds the CD-drive, but doesn't think its a writer.
> You can manually add devices, but its dev/hdc and is already found by
> k3b as just a reader.
>
> Mandrake Control Center labels it as a burner when I check the options
> on /dev/hdc so K3b seems to be missing something...
>
> Can anyone in the LUG enlighten me as to a solution? The docs I have for
> K3b and also the Linux HOWTOS haven't helped cos everything is as they
> say it should be (except for it working!) :-)
I suspect that your drive being accessed via hdc is the reason why it's
not being used as a writer. CD writers on linux tend to only be usable
when they're accessed via scsi. It's one of those throwbacks to the bad
old days.
Thanks to googling for
writer hdc linux scsi
I've found an article that should be of lots of help.
CD Writer as a SCSI Device
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CD_Writer.html
--
Paul Wilkins
