It's normal for optical disc drives to show up as ATA, so what ur seeing in dmesg is almost certainly the optical drive.
Normal mount-point for these types of drives is /dev/sr0, is that present on ur system? And can the OS read from the drive? - Nathan W Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: b kielhorn <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:19:49 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] CD-ROM burner. I have a "new" machine from FreeGeek that is running Slackware 13.0. I would like to burn a data CD-ROM, so I installed a package called "kb3." When I run "kb3" it complains that it cannot find any burner hardware. Looking inside the box, I see I have a Samsung SM-348 with CD-RW/DVD. I am able to read from the device. Should I be able to write CD-ROMS with the device? ------------------------------------ When I run "k3b" as root, I get: <unknown program name>(4164)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server <unknown program name>(4163)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. When I run "k3b" as non-root, a GUI starts but a message comes up saying it can't find s CR-Rom writer. Diagnostics I have tried (I don't know much about hardware): 1) I grepped dmesg for SAMSUNG using: dmesg | grep -i SAM This gives only: hda: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive which I think is my hard-drive and not the CD_ROM. (I can read CDs though?) 2) I ran "cdrecord -scanbus" which gives: Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. scsibus4: 4,0,0 400) 'Generic ' 'USB SD Reader ' '1.00' Removable Disk 4,1,0 401) * 4,2,0 402) * 4,3,0 403) * 4,4,0 404) * 4,5,0 405) * 4,6,0 406) * 4,7,0 407) I am not sure what this means. -------------------------------------------- If anyone has an idea about what is wrong, please let me know. Thanks. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
