[CentOS] Burning CDs

Thu Jun 16 00:48:04 UTC 2005
centos at 911networks.com <centos at 911networks.com>

Hi Alexander Dalloz ,

Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 3:03:20 PM, you wrote:

> Am Mi, den 15.06.2005 schrieb centos at 911networks.com um 23:48:

>> I have just installed 4.1 on a new Dell Latitude d610. It does
>> not automount the CDs. When I mount the CD manually I get:
>> 
>> $mount /media/cdrecorder
>> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

> What do you try to mount?

Because if not, it does not recognize that there is a CD in the
drive. If I mount it, then I can read the CD.


>> The CD writer is an Philips IDE: CDRW/DVD-ROM CDD5263
>> 
>> Here is my mtab:
>> 
>> $ cat /etc/mtab
>> 
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0
>> none /proc proc rw 0 0
>> none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
>> none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
>> /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
>> none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
>> none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
>> /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder iso9660
>> ro,nosuid,nodev,user=froggy 0 0

> Looks good.

>> How do I change /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder iso9660 ro to rw?

> You can't. This is a misconception.

> Use cdrecord or if you prefer a GUI use k3b for CD-R/CD-RW burning.
I do and get the following message:

Reload rewritable or blank media.
Please replace the in-drive media by a rewritable or blank media

I know that the CD-RW media is good, I have Centos 4 on another
computer and it works properly there.

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Thanks