k3b can't find my burner.

[Javaguy78]

Hi guys. I got a hardware problem.

I bought a TEAC DVD+R burner and installed it into my linux box. It is recognized as /dev/hdb, but K3B cannot find it as a compatible burning device.

When I originally installed it, it worked for 3 DVDs. I burned 3 DVDs just fine, then it bombed out and gave me input/output errors. I reloaded FC3

Now it doesn't even recognize it. I am using Kernel 2.6.10. what else can I do? Do i need to enable SCSI Emulation? and if so, How do I do it?

[james_in_denver]

You might want to put it on the second IDE cable as "secondary master" and put it on the "end connector" of the IDE cable, for some reason it seems as if CDRW's etc are pretty picky about being the "master" on the IDE cable.

[Javaguy78]

I guess I can try that. I got it to work by loging in as root and starting K3B.. Also, I can burn by starting K3B from the terminal SU-ed as root.... it seems this error is a permissions issue. Does anyone know how I can give my common account permissions to the DVD Drive for burning? And while you're at it, do you know how to grant my common user account write access to my vfat windows partition under linux? I can view/read and copy from, but not copy to.

[nandowong]

k3b was giving me permision error if i dint run it as root. so i chmod 777 /usr/bin/cdrecord

works fine now

[Javaguy78]

Thanks.. I'll give that a try

[Javaguy78]

Since everyone is ignoring my post http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49452, Let me continue using this one.

I got K3B working, but I can't figure out my drive mappings. My DVD Drive is mapping to /dev/hdb (linux seeing it as a hard drive device) rather than /dev/dvd. How can I remap my dvd drive to /dev/dvd without reloading the system?

Someone please help... and ignore mungoose's reply. these are TWO different issues, not the same issue. Thanks.

[nandowong]

whats in your /etc/fstab file?

[Javaguy78]

my fstab shows /dev/hdb as my dvd rom drive. I found on Freshrpms that I may need to enable scsi-ide emulation.

[Javaguy78]

OK, for all you who don't know how to make this work. I figured it out! Thanks for those that helped. OK, Your dvd burner/dvd rom drive will ALWAYS pull a /dev/hdX device code. The key is to make 2 changes as root.

1. chmod 777 /dev/hdX where X is the device of your DVD drive (give everyone permissions!)
2. ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/hdX where X is the DVD Device (create a symbolic link to /dev/dvd. This will allow any program that requires write access to the burner to have it regardless if it looks for the device at /dev/hdX or /dev/dvd (wahoo!)

[Javaguy78]

p.s. thanks to peeps at linux.org for the answer to this one :)