Burning DVDs

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 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
>