Burning DVDs
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Sat Oct 15 12:40:43 PDT 2005
>
> Hi all,
> My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to
> burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to
> create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something wrong
> in the drive's read/write permission. I checked the /etc/fstab
> file for read/write status and I got the following :
>
> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
> /dev/ad0s3b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad0s3a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
>
> This was the default set up that I haven't altered (yet...). Is there a
> reason why the DVD drive would be set in read only mode, as a default ?
> Should I just launch vi and edit the line from ro,noauto to rw,noauto or
> is there another way ?
Generally burners do not work through a mount on a drive.
They do their work directly to the device. They might not
even work on a drive until it is unmounted. I haven't tried
that claim to verify it though. If that is true, you would
have to unmount the device before running the burner.
So, there is no reason to mount a CD/DVD as writable because,
from the point of view of a mounted device, it is read only.
////jerry
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
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