Hi!

I have some problems with CDWriter an CDRom detection devices! The curious thing is the fact that I can read any kind of CD with both CDROM and CDWRITER, it starts atomatically the AutoRun thing! If I try to use cdrecord to burn a CD, I can't, because it can't find my CDWriter and CDROM, I used the command "cdrecord -scanbus" and here it is the message:

root@rippy:~ # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
cdrecord:
cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc
cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .

I also, installed "xcdroast" and the following message message was shown on the screen: "No CDWriter or CDRom device detected.For ATAPI/IDE devices under Linux you have to enable SCSI-Emulation in the kernel in order to activate them!"

I run a UbuntuOS with a kernel version 2.6!

Any advice will be wellcomed!

What is the command that you are using to write to CD?

Try something like this:

cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/hdc name_of_file_to_write

It says you need scsi emulation, but for kernel 2.6 you do not need it.

I listened to your advice and here it is th result:

root@rippy:/home/rippy/downloads # cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/hdc prezentare-qmail.pdf
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdc'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
cdrecord:
cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc
cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .

/dev/hdc is only going to work if that is the name of your cdrom drive. Do you know if that is what it is? Let's see what's in your fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/data vfat umask=022 0 0

belive me /dev/hdc is the CD-WR

Note also that your cdrom has to be unmounted before you begin your burn process. You are getting a busy signal which says to me that the cd is probably mounted by automount (or automatically when you boot up). Try:

See if that will let you burn "exclusively" as cdrecord puts it.

10x man it worked!