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K3B won't recognise my CD burner
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How should I do this

There is a lot that goes into getting your burner to work, and you need to give more information about your system--what does k3b tell you--what are the error messages? What kernel are you using 2.4.xx or 2.6.x? You need to look into dmesg and see what it tells you about your writer. The more information you can give, the more people can help you.

kernel 2.6.x
when I try to add the device manually he tells me that he cannot find a device on /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd

more can i not give you all
I'm a very newbie

I think that the device is just not properly detected cause hecannot read disks also

this is what dmesg says about my drives

hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: _NEC CD-RW NR-7900A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive


hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

when I put an empty disk in my burner he opens immediatly K3B but i cannot select a burning device

i had the same problem too.
in the /etc/fstab, tel the cdwriter is /dev/hdd
and remove the append in /etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo.
It should work. At least with me it did.

You should also add this to your lilo file: hdc=scsi-cdrom

I think this is right...it's been awhile since I toyed with the 2.6 kernel.

try this on the command line:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi

your cdrw should show here if your kernel is seeing it properly.

Do you have all of the programs K3B uses installed? Open up K3B's configuration settings and find the programs tab. Everything it needs for running is there, especially ones like cdrdao and cdrecord. If there's anything it can't detect, make sure you have it installed and in your PATH.

Also, there's a bug with kernel 2.6.8 and K3B that keeps it from detecting the writer unless you are running is as root. A new version of K3B has been released to fix this, so you might try upgrading.

I had also problems with my burner
cdrecord (v2.01) seems to have issues with Linux-2.5 and newer
try to start k3b as root
( in kde press ALT+F2 then enter k3b and use "run as different user" in the option menu )

im able to burn like that.
I hope there will be another solution soon : )

could you please help me a little more
I can go to te directory but what you ask me than????????????

More help needed I'm A newbie you know

Running K3B as root doesn't help

Thanks

could you please help me a little more
I can go to te directory but what you ask me than????????????

More help needed I'm A newbie you know

Running K3B as root doesn't help

Thanks

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
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This is my fstab file what should I change?

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/be2-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=791
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img

this is my lilo.conf file