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I have a CW068D ATAPI CD-R/RW cd writer and a cdrom that is a seperate drive. It reads cds fine and can install software from it. Ubuntu even knows when a blank disk is in the drive. The system hangs when I try to burn a cd. Both Nautilus 2.10.0 and K3B have the same problem. The problem with burning did not happen under Windows just before this. I installed a cao module for K3B to work. K3B did not come with Ubuntu. I installed that seperatly, and I found the cao module for it to work. What can I do to get the cd burner working? I have took Ubuntu off and reinstalled it. Whenever i try to burn a cd, I get an hourglass that never goes away, the mouse can not move, and I have to logout and log back in to get Ubuntu working again. I am using the latest version, Ubuntu 5.04. Please help.

Try burning from the command line with cdrecord and post any errors;
http://www.physics.ndsu.nodak.edu/linux/burn.htm

Code:

root@linux-box:~ # cdrecord -scanbus

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a38 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling

NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord

      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.

      Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.

      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.



cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-5-386

cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.

cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.

cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.

cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

cdrecord:

cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc

cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .

root@linux-box:~ #

do u have cdrdao installed

if all else fails try a program called
graveman

a nice and simple burning program ...

I just tried burning with Gnomebacker. That did not work, so I do not think the burning software is the problem. I have tried three others, and all have the same problem.

Until you fix these errors it doesn't matter what program you use they are all frontends to cdrecord.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.