I am currenly running FC3. When i put a blank cdr in my burn drive, it shows up on my desktop as a blank cd, so i belive it is mounted properly. But when i run CD/DVD burner, it says error burning cd. What is the cause of this?

Thank you,

J. Gordon Myshko

"I am currenly running FC3. When i put a blank cdr in my burn drive, it shows up on my desktop as a blank cd, so i belive it is mounted properly. But when i run CD/DVD burner, it says error burning cd. What is the cause of this?"

There are a lot of possible reasons. Please post the entire error message.

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Steve Stites

Error writing to CD
There was an error writing to the CD


Details:

cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: No write mode specified.

"cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
devname: '/dev/hdd'"

It looks like you have mixed ide-scsi and IDE access for this CD. If you are using kernel 2.6 I suggest that you take "ide-scsi" out of your bootloader kernel parameters. If you are running kernel 2.4 I suggest that you change /dev/hdd to the third scsi device.

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Steve Stites

i am running kernel 2.6. So should i just edit grub.conf, and remove ide-scsi from the line?

"i am running kernel 2.6. So should i just edit grub.conf, and remove ide-scsi from the line?"

Yes.

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Steve Stites

thank you very much!

Sorry to bother you again, but a problem has presented itself. I went in to edit grub.conf, and "ide-scsi" isn;t there.


# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img