K3b used to be able to correctly detect my btc burner as a cd writer
Now however it puts it in the readers list but it still says it can burn cdrws
Anyone know why
Btc bce2410Im
interface type Atapi
version A.22
/dev/hdc
cdroa driver auto

did you check ur /etc/fstab file... maybe u just have readonly permissions and not read-write...

how do i change it so it is read write instead of readonly

this is whats in it
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

the ro in both these line is read-only change it to rw ant try...

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

so just change the lines from

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

to

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0

Well now K3b sees the writer as a writer and asks me what the max write speed is every time i start it.
Is there any way to get it to remember
and also is there a way to get it to work in my normal user profile instead of just root

add user and users to the line

eg. --->/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,user,users,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0

what kernel are you using, i just fouind out that 2.8.1 messes scsi emulation up kind of and you may have to run k3b as root.

im using fedora core 2 5.81 or something