Phil Bass wrote:
I'm using Fedora 7 with all updates applied (except for a very recent
Perl update that the update program couldn't find).
I have been using xcdroast to save photos onto CDs. I always write
multi-session CDs so that I can keep adding photos until the disk is
nearly full. Some time over the past 5 months xcdroast seems to have
stopped working. After some Googling I found that a kernel update was
(probably) responsible and that it works when run as root. That would be
an acceptable temporary solution, but for me it doesn't work. xcdroast
starts up but never sees a CD in the CD-writer. Asking xcdroast to scan
for devices causes it to hang. This is true for both ordinary users and
root.
After further investigation I found an alternative CD burning program
called graveman and tried it. It hangs on startup for both ordinary
users and root.
Finally I tried to use the CD burning facility built in to Nautilus. The
trouble now is that I can't find out whether Nautilus will write a new
session to a multi-session CD. There's no option to control that AFAICS.
So I haven't clicked the write-to-disc button to see if it works.
If necessary I could learn how to use cdrecord (or is it wodim now?),
but that's far more complicated than I need and I'm fast losing the will
to live. ;-) Any suggestions?
For the record, I managed to get xcdroast to work by manually specifying
the device names (/dev/scd0 for my CD ROM drive and /dev/scd1 for my CD
writer). Specifying the device in SCSI form 'dev=0,1,0' causes cdrecord
to report:
WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device specification.
Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now,
the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible.
Run "wodim --devices" for details.
Then after a pause of several seconds it goes into an infinite loop saying:
Unable to open this SCSI ID. Trying to map to old ATA syntax.This
workaround will disappear in the near future. Fix your configuration.
Using device names of the form ATA:0,1,0 and ATAPI:0,1,0 cdrecord
immediately loops producing this last message. It comes too fast to see
if it was preceded by the 'deprecated syntax' message.
So I took the advice and ran 'wodim --devices', which produced:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD-ROM TS-H352C'
1 dev='/dev/scd1' rwrw-- : 'PHILIPS' 'DVD+-RW DVD8701'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manually setting those device names using the xcdroast Setup screen
fixed my problem, at least when run as root. xcdroast also recognizes
the CD-ROM and CD-writer devices when run as an ordinary user, but I
haven't actually tried to write to a CD in that mode yet.
Hope this is useful to someone.
--
Phil Bass (phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
