I have Suse 9.3 and it will let me read data from a cd off of my cd-rw drive, however, it will not let me erase or write a disc using it.

So.... I was figuring that maybe I have to have it identified on the SCSI bus instead of IDE...but I don't know what has to be done to get the IDE to release the CD-RW drive so that SCSI will pick it up....

I think the kernel is set up in 9.3 to be able to use SCSI

Can someone help me on this?




Thanks

What is "it"
are you trying this as root?

Good point.

Before using "it", try following "this".
Menu=>System=>More Programs=>K3bSetup
After setup start using as regular user only!

I apologize...

Using K3b to try and write to a 'blank' CD-RW disc.

I have tried to do this as 'root'and as regular user, but same thing happens, K3b gets to the 'burn' status and does not show any progress happening. Basically, it hangs there.

When I look here:

$ cdrecord -scanbus

My CD-RW device is not listed....

Confusing, because I can read data and music from the CD-RW drive otherwise..

Thanks for your help...

as root
dmesg | grep ATAPI
post what it says
also what kernel uname -a

Ok...heres what I got...

dmesg| grep ATAPI

hdc: CW078D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0x80
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
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Kernel:
Linux linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-default #1 Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

When I try:

cdrecord -scanbus

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir@suse.de-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8161B' '0042' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

...If I try this as 'root'

cdrecord -scanbus

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

K3b uses 'cdrecord' to write discs....I think. But is it looking for SCSI devices?

Thanks for looking at this...

Download an .iso like a boot disk or some small download and try as root;
(path to .iso being the name of the file like /home/yourname/boot.iso)
you can type /home/yourname/bo then press tab to save typing plus makes sure it is right