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Although the device per se (/dev/sr0) is seen by, for instance k3b,
when I click it it says no disk found(there is a blank CD in it alright)
Any tips what to check?
I want to write some directories to that blank CD and when it comes to the burning step it says disk not found
Also, even when I put a non-blank data CD in the CD-R and click it, it still says disk not found
Are you saying I need to do
mount /dev/sr0
? Then why does k3b see the device if it's not already mounted?
You may also try running the k3b-setup program as root. It will modify the fstab entries if needed. If you use lilo, post the append= line for the /etc/lilo.conf stanza you boot up to.
Originally posted by michaelk Devices and filesystems are not the same thing. You mount the filesystem not the device. A blank CD does not contain a filesystem.
What distribution and kernel are you running?
Exactly. You can write to a CD without mounting it. In fact, this is what you should do. You don't have to mount a device to use it. For example, when you write a floppy image to a floppy, you write directly to /dev/fd0, no mounting required. Same to CDs.
Not too sure about the CD-R thing, I just thought I'd throw in my $0.02
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