cdburner reads not writes

NGraphiX · 02-28-2003, 01:43 AM

having prob's getting my burner to work.

basically it loads read only, and trying to switch
through "mount /dev/hdc" and fstab only returns:
"block device is read-only"
"cdrecord - scanbus " claims it can't find anything
even though the scsi driver is actually loaded.
(through lsmod)
any idea what's going wrong?

Thanks in advance, NgraphiX.

carlywarly · 02-28-2003, 04:29 AM

RO in fstab doesn't mean anything at all for a CDRW. You need to make sure that scsi emulation is enabled. Check /etc/lilo.conf
It should have a line like this -
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
that's mine, showing that scsi emulation is enabled for sec master - hdc and sec slave - hdd. If you don't have this in yours, edit it, and then as root in a terminal type lilo to activate the changes. Reboot, root console cdrecord -scanbus should then give your CDRW.