K3B not writing

tjfriese · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 5:24 am Post subject: K3B not writing

Hello all,

I have K3B installed. It recognizes my burner, and it detects when there is a blank disk inside. However, it always fails to start cdrdao. For whatever reason I cannot get cdrdao to load the generic-mmc driver.

'cdrdao --driver generic-mmc' never works.

Here is the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus':

Cdrecord 2.01a05 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8520B ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

I have everything I need compiled into the kernel: scsi-emulation, generic scsi, and scsi cdrom. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Also, if anyone knows how to dot his with K3B and no scsi-emulation, that would also be much appreciated.

Thanks

taskara · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 5:36 am Post subject:

did you change the driver from auto to generic-mmc?

go to the configure menu and devices, u should find it there..
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ormi · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 9:44 am Post subject:

There is no entry for 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8520B' in /usr/share/cdrdao/drivers. In my case I had to edit drivers -file and add my CDRW/DVD device manually to use generic-mmc.

Try to add this line:
W|HL-DT-ST|CD-RW GCE-8520B|generic-mmc-raw
(or edit line 248 in drivers to match your device)

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

I am not sure if this solved my problem-I tried to run k3b the other day and it came back reporting some problem with cdrdao - previously k3b had always worked great for me- but seeing as I wanted to demonstrate its great functionality it decided not to work for me- probably some libs have been updated via emerge -u......

so looking at the posts here I tried :

cdrdao disk-info --driver generic-mmc

it came back with an error :

tjfriese · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject: Fixed

Thanks everyone. The problem was that it was just not obvious where to change the driver from auto to generic-mmc. Now it works like a charm.

taskara · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Fixed

crimson · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem with my lite-on drive, and I had to edit the /usr/share/cdrdao/drivers file and add generic-mmc-raw like ormi suggested. Thanks ormi!