Newbie question about cd's.

SuSE 9.1 Pro, Philips CDRWDVD3210.

According to Yast, the cd drive is recognised and integrated, and that lines up with the fact that I can boot from it, and can read data cd's which have already been written elsewhere.

But... When I use K3b to write a file to a blank cd straight out of the box, K3b reports it done successfully, but the file managers don't see the file, or the media. They report "Could not enter folder /media/cdrecorder" (which is where it is supposed to be mounted.)

The desktop icon tooltip reports the cd drive as Unmounted, and (naturally), Konqueror does not auto start when I put one of these cd's in.

All I'm trying to do is write files to a cd for backup.

I'm missing something, aren't I

Thanks for any help.

Pete

You set up K3b I take it? Else it won't work correctly (somewhere in the menu at the right side )...

Um, try right-clicking on the symbol -> mount device then left-click it or start Konqueror and open /media/cdrecorder.

Do you mean K3b Configure under Settings menu ?

I didn't do anything to set k3b up, as the pr says the defaults should work, and k3b reports it is writing the cd successfully.

Konqueror says it cannot open the media.

I'm also getting a k3b startup message that says I should be running cdrecord and cdrdao with root priveleges, and I can do this using k3bsetup, but I can't find anything by that name, and I can't find anything relating to running root privleges or cdrecord under Configure k3b.

Nor can I see a mount device icon on the k3b main screen.

What do I have to set up ? And where do I do it ?

Pete

/media/cdrecorder

hmmmmm
look at /etc/fstab
there should be a line in there with your cd device and mount point in it
if it starts off (as an example) /dev/cdrom
then
try as root
mount /dev/cdrom
then try to go to the folder
/media/cdrecorder
(first make sure /media/cdrecorder is actually the mount point in /etc/fstab)
then before you take the disk out
umount /dev/cdrom

OK - here's my /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /home/marita/data reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc1 /home/peter/data reiserfs defaults 1 2

I just took all the defaults on the install, and didn't change a thing.

Like I said,the thing works fine to read cd's that have already been written, just doesn't seem to want to write files.

All I need to do is to write file to a cd for backup and be able to get them back.

I'm out of my depth here, and really appreciate your help.

Thanks guys.

Pete

Won't write while it is mounted in read-only mode, change to rw.

OK, I did that and no change.

K3b still reports success, but when the cd is reinserted, Konqueror still reports "Could not enter folder /media/cdrecorder"

I checked the folder permissions for both /media and /media/cdrecorder, and they are set to allow anyone to read and modify.

Is there something I should be doing to the cd out of the box before attempting to burn a file onto it ? Like formatting it or something ? I thought cd's came ready formatted.

Pete

After changing /etd/fstab did you restart your computer or enter ? Else the change is not active yet...

Tried both the mount command and a restart.

I have the KDE desktop device icon turned on for the cd drive. It's tooltip shows the cd as 'mounted', with permissions dr-x------ which is the same as the disk partitions, but Konqueror still reports "Could not enter folder".

Now I'm stuck

Pete

Hey, look at your data . No write permission, something has gone wrong ...

Permissions (depending from your "policy") should be drwxr-xr-x. Change this as root.

I don't understand your remark about disk partitions -- you can't write to your disks either?

That's what was confusing me. The disk partition icons on the desktop are showing the same permissions dr-x------ but I can use them just fine.

I thought I must have been misunderstanding how these permissions work.

I'll go look at it again from root.

Thanks

Pete

Oh,oh. For the icons the permissions would be okay. Make sure the permissions are those from the device.

Thanks. I keep forgetting about the difference

Still trying to get used to the more technical Linux environment.

I'll go look.

Pete

I'm being slow again

Is there a dialog somewhere to set device permissions, or do I have to use a konsole command, or edit a config file ?

Thanks

Pete