I'm trying to run backuponcd and it keeps wanting to use my CD-ROM drive
instead of my CD-RW drive.

Mandrake 8.1
mnt/cdrom is dev/hdc
mnt/cdrom2 is dev/scd0 (This is my CD-RW)

I tried changing the $dev variable in /etc/backuponcd/global.rc, but the only thing that does anything is 0,0,0 and that only utilises the CD-ROM
drive. Running cdrecord -scanbus only reveals an entry for my CD-ROM drive; there is no scsi entry for my CD-RW. It's wierd, because I can write discs using the device with Eroaster and other CD-burning software...

How can I get backuponcd to recognize my CD-RW?

i'm be very tempted to think you're not reading the output of scanbus properly... what does your lilo or grub cofig file say?

I found that my CDROM was physically jumpered as the slave and my CD-R was jump'd as master. Switching that has gotten eroaster to recognize the device and backuponcd now tries to write to it.

However, backuponcd gets this far:

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VERIFYING THE ARCHIVE
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems.


What should I do now?

post a copy of your fstab.

Here it is:
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/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
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Thanks!