Since now I've never burned a CD under Linux. Now after I installed NeroLINUX logged in as root it warned me I should pass "hdc=ide-scsi" parameter to kernel in lilo.conf (so I did), rebooted, started NeroLINUX again even erased and burned my rewritable cd smooth. Now when I wanted to check the CD to see if all files were burned and I tried to mount de CD-ROM drive I've got an error like:Now here is my line from /etc/fstab:I've tried passing all fstypes I know and neither one worked. Could someone give some indications ?


<EDIT> SORRY ABOUT THIS. I've found out I only had to replace /dev/cdrom with /dev/sr0 . <EDIT>

change '/dev/cdrom' to '/dev/hdc' in your fstab and that should hopefully fix it.

regards,
...drkstr

Fixed it. Actually I had to replace /dev/cdrom with /dev/sr0. It is so obvious I'm a bit ashame for posting a thread 'bout this .

While NeroLINUX may require "hdc=ide-scsi" cdrecord, itself doesn't. You can easily burn CDs by running

"cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI"

That will ID where your CD-ROM Drive is on the bus and

"cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 someiso.iso"

Will do the actual burning, just adjust the dev= part to match the output of scanbus.

You can make the iso with

"mkisofs"

CDs are not like floppies where you put down a filesystem first than write files on top of it. with CDs everything must be done in one shot since once the dye layer is burned away you can't change it without destroying the data.

If you've burned a CD with WinXP you know that Windows opens a tmp folder and you then copy files to it. Behind the scences Windows rolls those files into an ISO than burns the ISO to the CD and deletes the ISO.

Dennisk

Oops, my mistake. No more LQ for me when it is past my bed time.

There's no reason to be ashamed, we all over look the obvious every once in a while. I just did this by replying without thinking it though all the way myself. In my opinion that is much worse then asking the question in the first place.

Glad you got it working!

regards,
...drkstr

Pfft. Don't worry about it. This is still one of the most common problems people have with burners, and you posting about it means probably 2-3 people who ran into the same issue are now looking at the solution to their problem, having found this post with a search engine.

Yeah, that's a fact. Hope this helps someone. Cause now after I recompiled my kernel to v2.6 I needed to change the line in /etc/lilo.conf with and modify my /etc/fstab from back to because scsi emulation is no longer needed in v2.6 kernel series.

I'm a little tired here, but I believe in 2.6 kernels you don't need the hdc=ide-scsi" anymore. It's been depracated. Altho I dont use the nero burner.

Yeah, that's what I said, that I don't need the hdc=ide-scsi kernel parameter anymore in v2.6 kernel and switched back to hdc=ide-cd. Also replaced /dev/sr0 with /dev/cdrom. I had those options (ide-scsi and /dev/sr0) from when I had v2.4 kernel and needed emulation.

oh lol, i didnt realize.

but I dont think you need to pass anything to lilo for your cd rom at all anymore.

i'm pretty sure you dont need that in your lilo anymore, the kernel should do it for you know.