On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:03:59PM +0100, Jim Dishaw (dishawjp) wrote: > [dishawjp@eunix ~]$ cat /etc/fstab | grep /dev/hd For the record, you can replace that command with: $ grep /dev/hd /etc/fstab > /dev/hdd3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 This tells me that /dev/hdb is the cd writer. > [dishawjp@eunix ~]$ ls -l /dev/cd* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 19 05:30 /dev/cdrom -> hda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 19 05:30 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 19 05:30 /dev/cdwriter -> hdb This confirms it. > [dishawjp@eunix ~]$ cat /etc/cdrecord.conf [snip] > cdrom= /dev/cdrom -1 -1 burnfree Replace /dev/cdrom with /dev/cdwriter. You were trying to record on your reader, not your writer. > Although it's not a "normal" Linux thing, I am considering > uninstalling and then reinstalling the cdrecord program. The reason it's not "normal" is that it won't normally work. If the configuration file is wrong (and I think it is), then replacing it with the original configuration file won't help you at all. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
