Re: FC4 blank cdr

From: Lenard (Lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 08/24/05


Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:41:42 GMT

grodenhiATgmailDOTcom wrote:

> I am running Fedora Core 4 on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop (with
> DVD/CD
> burner... Sony I believe). The drive recognizes both CD and DVD disks
> just fine (able to mount etc). However, if I insert a blank CD-R, the
> drive attempts to scan for about 30 seconds and simply gives up with
> no
> error or anything (checked syslog and dmesg). If I attempt to use
> xcdroast or Nautilus, it claims there's no blank cd in the drive.
> Anyone seen this? It's frustrating!! Yes, I've tried using SEVERAL
> different blanks. Thanks in advance!!

Turn off the automounting of the CD/DVD device, as root edit
the /etc/fstab file sample below;

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrecorder auto noauto,user,ro 0 0

The output of the typed command 'cdrecord -prcap' sans the quotes will
tell you about thedrive and the capabilities of the drive, sippet
below;

$ cdrecord -prcap
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using
setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/cdrom'
devname: '/dev/cdrom'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'TOSHIBA '
Identifikation : 'CD/DVDW SD-R6472'
Revision : 'TU51'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

  Does read CD-R media
  Does write CD-R media
  Does read CD-RW media
  Does write CD-RW media
  Does read DVD-ROM media
  Does read DVD-R media
  Does write DVD-R media
  Does read DVD-RAM media
  Does not write DVD-RAM media
  Does support test writing

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