I went to burn an ISO today and the k3b I have doesnt burn ISO's so I tried to use cdrecord and I got an error that my burner isnt supported in Slack 10. Its a burner that came with the computer and it worked in Slack 9.1 and FC2....is this something I can change with downloading some drivers? Thanks in advance.
much love,
nikki

What kernel-version are you using? I find it
hard to believe that a burner that worked in
9.1 should not in 10.0 :)

Do you use SCSI-emulation?
Try a
cdrecord -scanbus
and
cdrecord -dev ATAPI -scanbus



Cheers,
Tink

hi nikki,

did you pass this command "hdx=ide-scsi" to the kernel?

if you are not sure, open up your /etc/lilo.conf and add the "bold" part,

# beginning of linux boot section
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda9
append="hdx=ide-scsi"
# end of linux boot section

the x in the hdx reffers to your cd-rw. so probably hdc or hdd

don't forget to save and then run lilo afterwards.

Im using 2.4 which is the kernel that came with Slack. And yes I tried all of those commands and I searched on the net for other commands and nothing worked. It kept telling me that my burner wasnt supported ....Thanks for the help.
much love,
nikki

Marlor,
I opened up my lilo.conf and this is what I have in the place you told me to look:

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

Should I add everything in your post or just that one line?
much love,
nikki

Can you post your cd burner model, manufacturer and if it is a SCSI or an IDE one ?

also what is the output for :
dmsg | grep -i cd

Cedrik,
Here's what I got:

bash-2.05b$ dmesg | grep -i cd
hdc: Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-115 0112, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LG CD-RW CED-8080B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
bash-2.05b$

And I belive its an IDE.
much love,
nikki

good

add in your lilo.conf :

append="hdd=ide-scsi" as marlor said, run /sbin/lilo to take change in account and reboot

Ok I followed everyones advice and I tried to burn an ISO and this is the message that I got:

Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I followed directions on how to burn an ISO using cdrecord, so I can't figure out what I did wrong. I looked under dev=help and cdrecord -scanbus, but nothing. Any ideas?
much love,
nikki

Hey nikki,
are you sure that all necessary scsi modules are loaded? 'scsi_mod' and 'ide-scsi'
kernel 2.4 needs scsi emulation for cd burners, usb removable media, zip driver.

do a '#lsmod'
and see if the modules are loaded.

if the scsi modules aren't loaded you can try '#modprobe scsi_mod' and '#modprobe ide_scsi'

I hope you can get it to work
good luck

What command did you use to burn the ISO? Was this in the CLI or a GUI? -- J.W.

Could you post the output for :

cdrecord -scanbus dev=/dev/hdd

I don't know if this helps but is your cdrw the primary drive. Some software I have used for my cdrom kept trying to use my cdrw instead. -This maybe a dumb response but it could happen...

Ok.....I have tried everything and nothing was working. However, I found something out that may be helpful to others.
In K3b the latest version, if you click on Tools, then CD, then burn new image, you can choose what image you wanna burn. Click on the ISO you wanna burn and hit start. You have to be in root to do this. You can't be another user or else it won't give you the option to start. So I tried it and it worked!
So thank you thank you thank you everyone for all the help. It was soooooo appreciated.
much love,
nikki

If you want to use k3b as regular user, start k3b (as your normal user), then go to

Settings > k3b Setup, enter your root password and click 'use burning group' and indicate cdrom in the corresponding field, then click apply, then OK.

Make sure your user is in cdrom group in /etc/group and your device file in /dev belong to cdrom group too.

Now you should be able to burn CDs as regular user