On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Joe Beach wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed FC3 on my home desktop computer. It has an atapi > cdrw on hdc. I had been running FC2, and was able to burn CD's without > any problems. With the new FC3 installation, the nautilus CD creator > says that it is preparing to burn the CD, but it never does. Xcdroast > hangs when trying to scan for devices. A cdrecord -scanbus also seems to > hang. If I reboot back into FC2 (I have extra partitions so I can dual > boot FC2/FC3 in case this sort of thing comes up), cd burning works > fine, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. Also, I can read data > CD's (haven't tried audio) just fine. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for getting CD burning to work? I am > considering removing the FC3 cdrecord package and replacing it with the > one from FC2 to see if that will help. Or, downloading the cdrecord > source from its home page and compiling it to try it out. I don't know > if it will run on an FC3 installation, though, since the fedora cdrecord > is modified. Have you tried using 'cdrecord' directly? cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom foo.iso Satish
