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Re: Howto write CDs with Lite On



On Tue, 6 May 2003 09:38:33 -0700 (PDT),
Joris Huizer wrote:
> 
> Today, a fresh Lite On (48x24x48x) was built into my computer !
> 
> Now my question is the following: I haven't done any setup yet,
> but reading of CDs is working without a problem.  However, I
> don't know how to write on RW cds - if I try to mount, I get
> the following:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hdc,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
>        ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
> 
> The warning has some hint about scsi but I think Lite On was
> supposed to be IDE so I don't have any scsi functioning (the
> last time I tried to get that working I quit because it was
> messy)

You need ide-scsi, not just scsi.  To burn a CDR/W the user
program, either cdrecord or cdrdao, sends scsi commands over the
ide interface.  Have you tried the following commands as root?

# modprobe ide-scsi
# cdrecord -scanbus

If there are no errors you should be good to go.

> The warning is probably just about there being NO file system
> (as the cd is completely empty, right ?)

Right.
 
> What should I do to solve this & get the burning working?  If
> I've got this working, I'll first just try to write a backup of
> my files onto a RW cd, after that I'll try and look at burning
> debian cds (!!)

CD Writing is one of the things that just works (unlike my
months-long struggle to set up ethernetworking).  In fact the
first thing I did when I opened the box of my last CD writer was
to toss out the software CD.



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