Re. [SLUG] Re: mounting DVD & CDRW drives.

[Adam Bogacki]

> I understand that audio CD's & DVD's both use the iso9660 filesystem. audio cds do not use iso9660. CD players will try and access the drive directly. When I enter /dev/hdd into Gnome CD Player config (accessed from the top panel) I get the message "You do not seem to have permission to access /dev/hdd. This means that CD Player will not be able to run." I had root window opened in that workspace - but did that deny me permission ? Entering 'cdplayer' when logged in as user had no result. > I use the DVD drive to play both, and hope to be able to burn audio > via cdrecord. My last attempt to use gnome CD Player told me I had a > 'Drive Error' and that I did not have correct permissions. what does "ls -l /dev/hdd" look like? Tux:~# ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,  64 Mar 15  2002 /dev/hdd Tux:~# you could also try firing up something like xcdroast and scanning for drives in its setup menu. Good idea. It detected both DVD and CDRW drives and, on command, started to burn but stopped, suggesting that I change from the -DAO to the -TAO option. I have seen command line options how to do this in 'man cdrecord', but not in xcdroast. Further, in tinkering with the config I notice that  under 'HD Settings' it lists my largest empty partition, /home, as "Writeable ? No" - and also other empty ones on my system. It is also giving me the error message: "You have selected an ATAPI device as your CD writer. This is not a recommended setup - you will experience long delays within X-CD-Roast  and bad writing performance. See the FAQ on how to install scsi-emulation for best results" OOps .. sounds like more work. > My fstab includes > > >/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto > >0 0 > >/dev/hdd /cdrw iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto > >0 0 > >/dev/hdc /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto > >0 0 > > which should be correct, unless I am looking in the wrong place ... that looks about right, but you could probably leave the filesystem type for both drives as 'auto' as well. I did that, it simplified things and worked (for a while). > Am I choosing the right fs type ? I tried udf with no success. again, what are you mounting? what error are you seeing? At the moment I'm only attempting to play, and burn, audio. put a cd with something on it in the drive while you are testing, perhaps one of the cds from a distro. When I tried to duplicate a CD using XCDROAST it aborted with the error message "Your CD writer did not accept the CUE sheet needed for DAO writing.  This could mean that cd record does not support DAO with your writer.  Select TAO mode and try again." Any ideas how I do that ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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