I cant get my cd burner to be recognized...can someone please help me?

Please add some more details -- what behavior are you seeing, what distro are you running, what equipment are you using, what steps are you taking and what error messages are you seeing? -- J.W.

i went to the home directory and went to dev and it only read my cdrom...
i am using slackware, lite-on burner, and i dont know why it aint reading it, or what to type to get it to recognize it

It's still not clear -- are you trying to do a directory listing on the contents of a CD (is the CD in the drive?) are you trying to play music, have you mounted the CD, etc. Please describe the actual steps you are taking. -- J.W.

the OS is not seeing my cd burner...windows did, but slackware isnt....it only has three devices, the cdrom, hard drive, and the floppy....i cant find it anyware to mount it or anything

hi there,

post the output of

think it can helps..

regards

slackie1000

I had my buddy come over and he did something with VI Fstab.....but anyway, now in the gui the home directory, it shows HDC CDBurner....but when i click on it, it says it doesnt exist and to check if the disk was entered correctly....im not sure exactly what im supposed to do or what this means...please help

my friend was trying to mount it by editing my fstab and this is what it says is that HDC does not exist but this is what the fstab looks like

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdburner auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

I'm pretty sure we're doing this all wrong but this is quite the learning experience for me and my two friends. we all installed linux on our boxes together and we're learning as we go

all your help is appreciated

hi there,

are you trying to mount an audio CD?
as I wrote before, which kernel is running?
you need to give more info if you want help...

regards

slackie1000

i think what Newslacker is trying to say is that he has a cd-rom drive, cd-burner, hd, and floppy. his computer probably only recognizes the cd-rom,HD, and Floppy. looks as if he and his friend tried to edit the fstab by adding the cd burner as HDC and it didn't work. I don't know the answer to the question but I think that's what he's trying to get at. And if he's new to slackware (like me ) he's probably using the default bare kernel that comes with Slackware 10. I could be wrong but I'm new too.

Can you post the output of your dmesg here? I have a similar setup and could access both drives as /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. If you're using the 2.4 kernel you'll need to emulate it as a scsi drive by adding:

If you have 2.6 no need for this. Good luck.

this is what it said before i did what you said when i clicked on the device in the device directory

An error occurred while loading devices:/devhdcmntcdburner:


The file or folder /mnt/cdburner does not exist.

and it said the same thing after, when i did what you said it didnt say anything in the command prompt

hi,


be sure about fstab syntax..

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdburner etc...

the directory /mnt/cdburner you need to create by yourself: mkdir /mnt/cdburner

like jonthelam said, the kernel information is important and the line in lilo should be

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

you need to run lilo again

regards

slackie1000

ok....i got the cd burner to work, it reads it and everything....i thank you all for that....but now something else happens...
i went and got k3b to write cds...got it so it decodes mp3s, setup a cd and clicked burn, when i clicked burn there was an error, said didnt have the proper cdrdao....when i exited that it said k3b crashed, and this is what it showed in backtrace

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
0x419c24da in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#0 0x419c24da in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x40f8c004 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler ()
from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#2 0x419c0be5 in pthread_barrierattr_setpshared () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#4 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#5 0x0000002b in ?? ()
#6 0x0000002b in ?? ()
#7 0x08811210 in ?? ()
#8 0x08841858 in ?? ()
#9 0xbfffe778 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfffe740 in ?? ()
#11 0x40713c40 in __JCR_LIST__ () from /opt/kde/lib/libk3btools.so.2
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#13 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#14 0x00000019 in ?? ()
#15 0x0000000e in ?? ()
#16 0x00000004 in ?? ()
#17 0x41627428 in QMemArray<QRegExpEngine::CharClass::Range>::detach ()
from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3


do you guys know what i need to do?

nevermind, got it to work....but anyway i appreciate all your help
Thanx