Installing a dvd burner

ats2 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 297

Hi,
I had a cd-rom reader, identified in fstab as follows

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

ats2,

You should create a new mount point in /mnt, say /mnt/dvd and an additional entry in /etc/fstab, pointing to it.
This will make mounting things for reading easy.

For burning, you need a new application. I like xcdroast but KDE users are reputed to like k3b.
You can also use packet writing on CD-RW and DVD+RW media so they behave like ordinary (but slow) writable drives.

If your new drive is not seen at all, do you have the Primary/Slave jumpers set properly on both drives ?
Should you have any doubts, unplug the IDE cable from one at a time.
Do you always have a /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd ?
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

ats2 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 297

Thanks,
it works fine. I also added hdc=ide-scsi in Grub

Thx again.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

ats2,

SCSI emulation is not required in 2.6 but you can still use it if you want.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.