Cendyne Liteon 24102b...where is cdrecord???
 

Yet another n00b post for me :)

Apologies if this has been covered before but I couldn't find anything that pertained to the problem I'm having.

I have a Cendyne 24x burner which is really a Liteon 24102B. In addition, I have a Toshiba 16X DVD ROM. Both work quite well; however when i try to launch k3bsetup, it tells me that cdrecord is not installed. I say fine, load up the package manager in Mandrake (9.1 btw) to install cdrecord but it isn't listed there; under "Remove software" it *is* listed though. typing "locate cdrecord" in a terminal shows a bunch of howto's and man page entries but no /usr/bin/cdrecord or wherever it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Also, k3b does not recognize this burner. SCSI emulation is already enabled (I checked all of that first) so I don't know what else to do. Please help!!! :D

I really don't want to have to boot into windows *just* to burn a cd.

Many thanks in advance

Are you trying this as root? You must be root until cdrecord is configured for users.

# CD burning info
Is it configured and what is the device? Command this to find out:
cdrecord -scanbus
Adding an IDE CD-Writer to Linux
CD Writing HOWTO
Burning CDs on Linux
# Burn an ISO to disk
cdrecord -v speed=<burning speed> dev=<your device> /path/to/foo.iso
# Burn from disk to disk
cdrecord -v dev=<your device> speed=<burning speed> -isosize /dev/cdrom
# Generate an ISO from a directory.
mkisofs -Jr -o foo.iso /path/to/directory
mkisofs -vrTJUV "Label" -o foo.iso /path/to/directory
# Generate an ISO from a CD
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso
Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO
# Convert mp3 to wav with lame
for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav; done
# Burn a CD from wav files
cdrecord -v -audio -pad speed=<burning speed> dev=<your device> /path/to/*.wav
# Erase a CDRW
cdrecord -v dev=<your device> speed=<burning speed> blank=fast

# Mandrake links
Mandrake home page
Mandrake Users website
Easy urpmi config for Mandrake
urpmi mini-HOWTO
Easy software management: Red Carpet
Maximum RPM
rpmfind
You didn't install the developmental packages? As root, command:
urpmi gcc
An Introduction to the Midnight Commander. You can install it by commanding:
urpmi mc
Midnight Commander home page

That's the problem; cdrecord isn't anywhere on my system. Yet when i type "urpmi cdrecord" it says "everything already installed". I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem anymore or more of a software problem with Mandrake 9.1. Any suggestions please? :D

There is root and then there is full root and I don't understand your problem unless you post exactly what you did and typed.

To change to the full root power account, use these commands in an x terminal from your user account. Note the change in the prompt.If it doesn't work from that, give the full path to where cdrecord is installed on your system.

Okay I don't think I'm explaining myself correctly.

i do this:

And what I get is
as well as about 20 other entries that are in /usr/share/doc/cdrecord-2.0

I don't have any listing of anything like /usr/bin/cdrecord, but when I type

I get this response:
"Everything already installed"

I have no idea why it says everything is installed when clearly cdrecord isn't in /usr/bin or wherever it needs to be.

Also, in mandrake's "Remoive packages" script with rpmdrake, it lists cdrecord as already being installed.

Did you do an updatedb or leave your computer on overnight before doing the locate cdrecord? I get a couple of screens worth of listing on my box.

:scratch: Mine (in Mandrake 9.0) is installed at /usr/bin/cdrecord.

Try using the Mandrake Control Center and uninstall and re-install it if if isn't there. :confused:

Man...there isn't an emoticon for hitting yourself on the head. Yeah the uninstall/reinstall + updatedb worked
k3b now sees my burner and cdrecord is now in /usr/bin.

Thanks for the help !