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Old 03-25-2006, 10:45 AM   #1
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CD Burner problem, in need of assistance


Hi and thank you for taking the time to read this. I recently installed Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog an updated it, on a friends recommendation (I've been using Slackware Linux for about 3 years now). Anyway, I'm delighted with Ubuntu, but I do have a problem.

My CD burner doesn't work properly. The system recognizes it, but when I put a blank CD in there, it says there's no medium found in it.

Some specifics:

- my burner is an ASUS - CRW-5232AS

- in /dev/ I have entries for cdrom and cdrom1, cdrom corresponds to /dev/hdc and cdrom1 (my burner) corresponds to /dev/hdd

- I am using Kernel 2.6.10

K3b recognizes the burner just fine when I run it as root, or as my normal user. But when I select the burner in the upper left-hand corner of the K3b screen, it fails to recognize it, saying "No disk", even though there's blank CDRW in there. And of course, when I try to burn the disk it fails as well, telling me to insert a blank CD.

What can I do to resolve this problem? Any help is much appreciated, thank you very much.
 
Old 03-25-2006, 12:05 PM   #2
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Do you have entries pointing to the CD in /etc/fstab?
It should be something like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0

Rick
 
Old 03-25-2006, 01:16 PM   #3
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Rick

Thanks for getting back to me.

I sure do, here's the line right here:
dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

... looks normal, that's what's so confusing about this LOL
 
Old 03-25-2006, 04:12 PM   #4
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Ok. Try burning from the command line, see if it works. Here are the steps:

1. Find device ID with : cdrecord -scanbus
2. Create an ISO image (from a CD)
a. Mound the CD to be copied in the appropriate drive
b. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=ISO_image.iso

2A. Or Create a CD from an ISO image
a. Insert black CD into drive
b. cdrecord dev=2,0,0 -data speed=8 ISO_file.iso

Note:

To enable Juliet support (long file names in widows) add -j
To enable HFS (Mac file system) support add -hfs

If this works, then the problem is NOT the CD but the interface you are using, namely K3B.

Let me know if this works.

Rick
 
Old 03-25-2006, 10:00 PM   #5
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Rick, thank you again.

Okay, I tried cdrecord -scanbus first thing, and this is the output I got:

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-6-386
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
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 .

Doesn't look good ...

I tried making myself an ISO image anyway tp continue testing, and I got this message:

dd: opening `/dev/cdrom': No medium found

What would you advise next?

Again, I appreciate your assistance, and most importantly your time.

-Kenny
 
  


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