I installed a new CD-RW drive on my desktop running SuSE 8.1 Professional Linux. Right now, I have two drives in the system. A regular old CD-ROM and this CD-RW drive. My CD-ROM (/dev/hdd) can read CDs just fine (audio or data).

I have tried to do writes to my CD-RW (/dev/hdc) to no avail.

I'm pretty sure that those are in fact the right /dev files because if I do

"eject /dev/hdc" or "eject /dev/hdd" the drive I would expect to eject does.

When trying to burn mp3's in k3b, sometimes (ie. rarely) the burn seems to go okay. By this I mean that all the tracks are written and seem to be the right length.

However, they're nothing but static. Also, the very end of the songs--probably the last half second or so--seems to sound right.


I get the message "not all files have been buffered".

I ran k3b_setup and it recognized my CD-RW as the drive to write to.

I've also noticed that the programs tccat, tcdecode, tcextract, tcscan, tcprobe, and transcode all seem to be missing.

One last thought...I'm not 100% sure that my CD-RW is installed properly. Any tests I can run to see if it is?