Thank you for your help Alexander, that did it!
I did notice something strange in my cdrecord.conf file. This is what I had:
CDR_DEVICE=cdrom cdrom= /dev/cdrom -1 -1 burnfree
It seemed strange to me because you mentioned /dev/hdX, where in k3b, the device is listed as /dev/hdc.
What I typed in that made it work was cdrecord dev=cdrom, as in my cdrecord.conf file. Now my question, is my conf file wrong, or do I need to reconfigure that cd burning apps with the correct device name?
Does /etc/fstab have anything with the device name of the cdrom also?
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No, /etc/fstab is only used when mounting. CD's and DVD's of all varieties are written when not mounted. The confusion(?) over device names comes from the /dev files. As you can see below, cdrom is a link to hdc on my machine (and from your discovery above, yours too). Also, notice that there are a number of devices treated this way.
[root@mavis ~]# ls -l /dev | grep ^l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 03:54 cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 03:54 cdrom1 -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 03:54 cdwriter -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 30 03:54 core -> /proc/kcore
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 03:54 dvd -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 03:54 dvd1 -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 03:54 dvdwriter -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 30 03:54 fd -> /proc/self/fd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 09:54 floppy -> fd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 30 03:54 MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 09:54 par0 -> lp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 30 09:54 ptal-printd -> /var/run/ptal-printd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 03:54 ram -> ram1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 03:54 ramdisk -> ram0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 30 03:54 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 30 03:54 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 30 03:54 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 03:54 systty -> tty0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 09:54 tape -> nst0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 30 09:54 tape1 -> nst0a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 30 09:54 tape2 -> nst0l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 30 09:54 tape3 -> nst0m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 03:54 XOR -> null
[root@mavis ~]#
