Problems in K3B

Jamar · 01-21-2004, 02:09 AM

I have K3B and most parts of it work fine: I can successfully burn data and audio CDs without a problem. However, when I try to do a Clone CD, I run into trouble. It will start copying from /mnt/cdrom (DVD rom drive) to an image at first. However I keep getting errors that say "Cannot read source disk" After awhile it will stop. This happens with any CD I try to clone. I am using Fedora Core 1 by the way.

Jamar · 02-01-2004, 08:21 PM

Hmm, I still can't get this to clone CDs. I read somewhere else that cdrecord requires SCSI addressing and that I'd need to emulate SCSI. I did this by modifying my GRUB config file as was told. However, I still cannot copy CDs without it giving the "cannot read source disk" error."

Greyweather · 02-01-2004, 09:03 PM

I don't know about K3B, but XCDRoast has conflicts with automount. I'm guessing Fedora sets up automount by default, maybe disabling it will remove the conflict.

This is just a shot in the dark. Hopefully someone who uses K3B will have experience fixing this issue.

Edit: After you enabled scsi-emulation did you update the location for the device in your k3b configuration? It'll have a different location as a scsi-emulated device than as a ATAPI device.

Jamar · 02-01-2004, 09:39 PM

Hey how do you turn off Automount? I am using KDE by the way.

Thanks.

Also, I have no idea where to specify the new location. I had to add the line hdc=ide-scsi in the config. What would the new device be called and how do I change this in K3B?

geoff_f · 02-02-2004, 04:24 AM

This is how I got K3b working on Mandrake 9.1:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...r=2#post338886

You might have to make some changes because of Grug vs Lilo, etc. You might also care to read the saga leading up to that post for a bit of background on why I arrived at that solution. Hope this is of some help to you.

Jamar · 02-02-2004, 02:48 PM

Almost got it I think..but I can't figure out how to change that driver for the last step in my version of K3B nor how to change the mount points back to their original settings in the control center.

geoff_f · 02-03-2004, 12:37 AM

In K3b, select Settings->Configure K3b and click on Devices. Under Reader, next to Cdrdao driver, click on the setting in the right hand pane. It will turn into a drop-down box. Then click on the drop-down box, select generic-mmc from the list, and click OK.

The easiest way to change the mount points back to their original settings is to edit /etc/fstab with a text editor (you'll need to open it as root).

Good luck.