> Wow! This is turning into a looooong thread! So let's see I went back > into the beginning of the thread and reread everything. Here is the > sum: yes this has unfortunately. > You have an internal CDRW (AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013) > that is recognized by the kernel (that is good news) that when you > mount valid CDs on it they mount no problem (since in earlier posts > you fixed the little typo in your /etc/fstab). i did fix that type but i thaught i posted that it still didnt fix the problem doing a regular mount. I cant use konqoreor or just do a mount without the full screen mount of mount udf iso9660, etc. > > The only problem is that when you try to burn things with 'cdrecord' > you can't get exclusive access on the drive even though you are using > k3b or cdrecord as root. > > cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI > > recognizes your CDRW correctly but still you can't get exclusive access on it. > > So the only thing that I have in mind is try to remove your CF Card > Reader and then run > > /sbin/lsmod i removed the cf card and even rebooted to make sure those modules were out of the system. /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by udf 79429 0 vfat 12481 0 fat 39393 1 vfat snd_mixer_oss 18048 0 snd_intel8x0 35404 1 snd_ac97_codec 63952 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 88584 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 29188 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9736 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 4033 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 9216 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 25636 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi snd 51172 10 snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 7713 1 snd vmnet 28688 12 vmmon 45088 0 parport_pc 21249 1 lp 9133 0 parport 35977 2 parport_pc,lp autofs4 20677 0 sunrpc 141861 1 forcedeth 15937 0 floppy 54001 0 sg 28513 0 scsi_mod 105360 1 sg dm_mod 47317 0 ohci_hcd 19793 0 ehci_hcd 27973 0 button 4825 0 battery 7117 0 asus_acpi 9177 0 ac 3533 0 ext3 96937 3 jbd 66521 1 ext3 > > and post the results. Afterwards try to put an empty or CDRW cd in > your CD drive and give something like say > > cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data <some file here> > > and see what happens. Does it work now? it didnt work. this is the output i got. cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data /home/obsidian/kde/linspire-full-4.5.499.iso Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI. Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'AOPEN ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5232 ' Revision : '1.03' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Current: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0008 (current) Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 545 MB Total size: 626 MB (62:02.37) = 279178 sectors Lout start: 626 MB (62:04/28) = 279178 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6) ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc. Trying to clear drive status. Forcespeed is OFF. cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track. cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media. cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore. cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank the media first. Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52.0 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0xC0 (illegal mode for this track) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 11.030s timeout 200s cdrecord: OPC failed. Writing time: 11.062s cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.