cd burning dev reference issues. scd0 vs cdrom

[pailott]

Strange problem. Tried for the first time on the new system to burn a cd. Thought I'd try a GUI tool first (rather than trying to remember cdrecord and all that). Fired up GnomeBaker from KDE menu. (I use KDE in my personal account, and Gnome in my root account). It saw my sony cd/dvd burner, on the scsi equivalent port. (I remember the old days when cd player/burners alwasy went through a scsi interface, even if they were IDE drives). My drive is an IDE drive. When I tried to burn it just stopped operating, and I had to kill it. After a couple of tries I tried the command line commands, and got a lot of strange error messages.
I used the scsi dev reference (scd0). No good. I then tried using a reference to /dev/cdrom, and it worked ! But /dev/cdrom is just a pointer to /dev/scd0 ? So why the failures ?

So 1st problem is GnomeBaker is trying to use the scsi ref. Can I change it to the /dev/cdrom or I guess /dev/cdrw might work as well,,, must check.

Any advice on these confusion issues ?

peter

[stevea]

*EVERYTHING* uses the scsi interface on the recent kernels, IDEs, SATAs, USB sticks. That's not an issue.

It's possible but unlikely that /dev/cdrom works but it's linkde to /dev/scd0 and that doesn't. Maybe the drive was just wedged and happened to work the next time.

Anyway go to gnomebaker and edit->preferences and add a new harware item for /dev/cdrom

[pailott]

Hi Stevea,

tried that trick last night, adding /dev/cdrom. GnomeBaker still hung up.
In the help or docs (or somewhere)it says if cdrecord works, GnomeBaker will.
It doesn't on my (simple) system.

I'll play with it again this evening.

Peter

[bob_c_b]

GnomeBaker currently does the same thing with my SATA DVD writer, I removed it and get what I need for burning write from Nautilus/Gnome, but I should go back and file a bug report (ran into the first week I switched back to Fedora and forgot all about it). I think there is a newer GnomeBaker available to be compiled from source as well, but with Nautilus handling ISOs and data disk so well I never got around to it.

[pailott]

Hi Bob,

The GnomeBaker interface is so nice its a shame not to use it. It reminds me of the Roxio interface, but simpler without all the extra BS. (Some of the WinDoz burner GUI's are terrible !!! Had to use the NERO one on my girlfriend's computer... Peeuuuu !)

One problem I have is that when I am in my usual user account I use KDE (I use Gnome as Root). The Nautilis/Gnome thing (drag and drop and burn) works ok in Gnome, but can I use something similar in KDE ? What other burn tools are in the F7 package ? It would be nice to have GnomeBaker working !!

Peter