Question about writing DVD's
 

I just found some info about my DVD player from Kinfocenter. When I clicked on CD Rom information, the entry said, CD Rom information ld, and in the list was:
Can write DVD-R and under the value for hdd and hdc was set to 0 0
Can write DVD-RAM and that value was also set to 0 0
0 means, "no" or "off", right?

I've asked a number of questions (thread here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...o-dvds-554399/) of why I couldn't burn DVD's with my Sony DVD burner (SONY DVD+RW DRU-120A 1.51) -- could this be the reason why? Can this be changed? I'm pretty sure that this DVD player/burner was able to make DVD's when it was installed in the Windows computer.

Check the output from the typed command cdrecord -prcap to be sure.

Anything wrong with setting KDE not to mount/show blank DVD media?

KDE Control Center-->Desktop--.Behavior-->Device Icons Tab

Anything wrong with un-mounting the blank media by right clicking on the icon and choosing to unmount the media???


I strongly suggest that you upgrade k3b to 1.0.4;

http://k3b.plainblack.com/
http://packman.links2linux.de/package/k3b

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This is what that command gave me:
All the stuff for showing mounted and unmounted DVD media is checked off in in the KDE control center.

When I put a blank DVD+R in the drive and on the desktop, right click (after a few seconds) I see a mount command but no unmount. The "properties" says, unmounted but k3b recognizes that there is media present and says what it is (DVD+R).

My version of k3b is 1.0.1. I didn't know that they have 1.0.4. I just tried checking and there is no k3b 1.0.4 for my system. They are all for 10.2+ and I have 10.0.

I said exactly cdrecord -prcap do not add anything to the command please.
Example output:

I don't get any of that nice readout on my system. This is the result of the command:

That's why I added the hdc because it told me, "No cd/dvd-recorder device specified" so I thought I had to do that.

What does the typed commands show;

cdrecord -scanbus
ls -al /dev/cdrom
ls -al /dev/cdrom0
ls -al /dev/cdrom1

Something is not right, the cdrecord -prcap should have produced a nice output like the example I posted. here is an excerpt from the typed command man cdrecord;

These are the results of the above commands:
cdrecord -scanbus ls /dev/cdrom
cdrecord -scanbus ls -al /dev/cdrom
cdrecord -scanbus
It looks like scanbus or cdrecord does not see my cdrom/dvd drives but k3b knows they're there and so does the system because I can play dvd's just fine and I can record to CD-R's just fine.

What does your fstab file look like??? cat /etc/fstab

Others have looked at it and said nothing is wrong. There has got to be something not right somewhere!

I was hoping to see(discover) is which devices are your CD/DVD writers by requesting the fstab file.

So check that both devices are known, the commands should be typed as shown;

ls -al /dev/cdrecorder

ls -al /dev/cdrecorder2

cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus

cdrdao scanbus


I really do suggest that you upgrade k3b for the improvements handling devices;

http://k3b.plainblack.com/

Hi,

What distribution? Kernel? Do from the cli; 'uname -a' for the kernel.

Since you do not show anything from the scanbus then from the cli as root;
Notice the device hdc is the cd/dvd rom. If your device is a sata then replace the command with 'dmesg |grep -i sd'.

If the hardware was recognized at boot by the kernel then you should be able to access. Do you have your user(s) in the proper group? Are you performing the commands as 'root'?

The result of ls -al /dev/cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-12-01 11:53 /dev/cdrecorder -> hdc

ls -al /dev/cdrecorder2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-12-01 11:53 /dev/cdrecorder2 -> hdd

cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
cdrdao scanbus
I can't upgrade to the latest k3b because there are no rpm's available for SuSE 10.0. I like using rpm's because YaST works out the dependencies so I don't have to deal with them. My system is considered "old" by Novell's standards it seems. I just installed it 2 years ago. I was hoping that this computer would last for me longer than the Windows computers (being able to get updates, program packages, etc). I guess I must be wrong about that.

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Hello onebuck,
The distro I'm using is SuSE 10.0
uname -a is one command I can remember. Here's the result:
Linux linux 2.6.13-15.15-smp #1 SMP Mon Feb 26 14:11:33 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

So, here's the result of dmesg |grep -i hd:

I suggest using SCSI emulation. You will need to modify the bootloader and add hdc=ide-scsi and hdd=ide-scsi. Your drives will not have a device ID of /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. You will need to change the fstab file and your applications to reflect the new device IDs. Your version of cdrecord does not support ATAPI devices without the SCSI emulation.

The need for SCSI emulation was eliminated with the 2.6 kernels but this is a fairly early kernel version and there still might of been some problems. I'm sure others will chime in to help fill in the details.

Hi,

By chance did you compile a new kernel?

From the cli do;

With 2.6 the idecd is the current means to handle the atapi device. The ide-scsi is deprecated. Your devices are recognized. You could roll back to a previous cdrecord to see if that helps. Some 2.6.21 kernel users have experienced problems with cdrecord and corrected by a roll back to a previous cdrecord version.

I don't use SUSE for the reason that you don't control it. It controls you via Novell just like the way M$ attempts to. I really don't like Novell either. I used and maintained Novell for years but wouldn't touch it again.

Just like any tool, SUSE is that. Some like the feel and the OS meets the needs of that user. I just like to control my systems. That's why I use Slackware. No dependency nightmares for me.

No, I did not compile a new kernel. I have updated it with the YOU tool a few times though and the last time that was done, the module responsible for my being able to use Kino for capturing video from my camcorder has not worked properly since. I haven't updated it since then because of now having to re-install my Nvidia graphics card driver and I don't feel like having the deal with that again.

Here are the results of the command cat /usr/src/linux/.config |grep -i idecd:

So, you can just install stuff and that's it? No busted apps? If something did break, how would you track down what went wrong and fix it?

I am SO not an expert as you can tell!