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Hi, I'm trying to burn a CD with songs that are already in wav format.
(my cdrw is reading CDs and DVDs fine. I got the songs ripping an audio CD using transcode)
Looks like your using "Supermount"... I have a CDR and CDRW and in my fstab both are mounted "ro" ... cdrocord, kb3, or other burning applications will make the appropriate changes needed to burn cd's...
- as Kencaz wrote: the solution is to give cdrecord the full path towards the cdrw. (you can get the right path towards your cdrw by looking at /etc/fstab - "emacs /etc/fstab")
Distribution: Technically Gentoo is a "meta-distribution", so I'll call my distro "OMGALSDISTROOMGGNULINUX"
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For all y'all talking about /etc/fstab, there's a clear and simple reason you shouldn't touch fstab for this: /etc/fstab is about mounting filesystems. That is, you'll have a line in your fstab saying that the filesystem on the device /dev/hdc should be mounted at /media/cdrecorder when you do decide to mount it (or when it automounts, if you do the automounting thing), and also specifies some options related to this mounting.
(For those that don't know, mounting a filesystem means taking information from a device and allowing it to be accessed through your directory structure. If you had nothing in your /mnt/fstab file and you wanted to use a data cd you'd have to issue a "mount" command specifying the device name of your cdrom drive (/dev/hdc), the location to which you want it mounted (/media/cdrecorder), and information passed as commandline arguments like the filesystem type and whether you can write to the device using commands like "mkdir" and "touch" when you access it via /media/cdrecorder. If you have information in your /etc/fstab file, all you have to do is type a simple "mount /medai/cdrecorder" and that stuff you don't want to memorize is automatically applied for you. For those not familiar with mounting, if you manually mount a filesystem on removable media you have to unmount it ("umount /media/cdrecorder") before you eject the disk. Unless you have an automounter that does that for you... I've never used an automounter so I don't know anything about 'em)
To burn a CD, you don't mount a filesystem. Therefore nothing in /etc/fstab has anything to do with CD burning. Same is true when you play an audio CD. The tipoff is that instead of specifying /media/cdrecorder to cdrecord you are specifying /dev/hdc. In fact, if a filesystem on a drive is mounted and you try to record or play a cd on that drive it will fail because the device is already being used for a filesystem.
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