Dell 24x cd-rw laptop module for latitude c800

meesterfox · 05-21-2005, 09:54 PM

I'm having a bit of trouble with getting my burner to work under linux. Sure, windows detected it just fine. But I'm not on windows anymore. And I've never had to setup a burner in the first place.

I downloaded and compiled K3b burner software. I have an iso I want to burn. But it doesn't seem like K3b can find my burner.

Now, I can boot off of the burner drive just fine; so the bios see's it. But it looks like linux does not.

The burner is just a module for my latitude c800.

I don't see it under the "devices tree" in konqueror. I can see the 2 partitions I have on my hard drive, and the built in CD drive. But not this dude.

I would imagine it SHOULD be HDC (actually, in the install, that's the drive it was reading from)

Mind you, this is slackware I'm running. I figure that's an important aspect. Along with it being 10.1

So, the burner needs to burn. The drive isn't even showing up in linux, so.... what do I need to do to get this guy to burn? (aside from gasoline and a pack of matches, naturally.)

J.W. · 05-22-2005, 02:43 AM

A CD drive will not appear unless a data CD (not an audio CD) is present, and you have mounted the drive to a mount point. Is that the case? Similarly, can you provide more detail about the commands you are running - are you doing a directory listing, or are you actively trying to burn a CD? If it's the latter, what commands are you running? -- J.W.

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