Hi. My CDRW seems to work fine when reading cd's but it won't write tracks or blank a cd/r. The output on /etc/fstab has 'ro' instead of 'rw'. I take it this isn't right. Do i simply change the 'ro' to 'rw'? Thanks for any help on this problem.
Regards,
Scott

No sir, that's simply for rw filesystems..

Where's the problem you get? What are you trying to burn with, more importantly what user are you using?

Post here the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Run this as root.

Also tell us a little about your system, and where your drives are positioned, especially the CDRW.

One more thing, how did you get to Oz?

Cool

i've got what i think is an IDE (?) CDRW, i know there's SCSI ones but don't know how to tell the difference. I've tried burning cd's as root and as user but still get same problem. Here's the output from cdrecord --scanbus:
Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
0,3,0 3) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-RW 40X12 ' 'V.OW' Removable CD-ROM
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

My system is a Shuttle Spacewalker MV42N motherboard, with 1.7GHz Celeron CPU, running Mandrake 9. My hard-drive is on hdc and the CDROM/W on hdd.
...and, how did i get to Oz? Well, a techies tornado whisked me away, and now i'm on the long journey back to /Home. :-)