cd-burner and mandrake 7.2 = burnt user

[stavefan]

Hi all,

I tried to configure my burner last night and I failed miserably...and i don't understand why. I went to the mandrake site and followed the burner tutorial. My first problem came right at the beginning...i did the cdrecord -scanbus and it came back telling me that it was version 1.9 and that it could not open the SCSI driver and that i should try to run it again as root(which i was)...i tried going through the rest of the tutorial and putting in the line
cd /dev && rem cdrom2 && ln -s scd0 cdrom2 (or whatever is listed in the tutorial)...it totally did not work...
i even tried cding to the /mnt/cdrom2 afterwards and i got the response input/output error....

what do i do now? i have 2 cdroms, the /mnt/cdrom goes to my regular cdrom, and I am assuming that /mnt/cdrom2 goes to the burner...shouldn't cdrecord have at least seen the burner? even now it doesn't...i am so totally confused....

i appreciate any help.
thanks
stavefan

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Sometimes strange things can be very beautiful...

Aleixa, "V", "Honey Lake"

[Choozo]

Is this a IDE or SCSI burner?
If its a IDE burner, how's your lilo.conf set up? All the 'image=/.....' sections should contain a line like this (swap the hdc with the actual device name): 'append=" hdc=ide-scsi"

This may be the problem if you have installed the burner after you installed Mandrake 7.2.

[stavefan]

its ide...sorry about that...meant to include that...

the burner was in the machine when i installed drake..even was the drive that the cd had to go in...i will check the lilo.conf when i get home...

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Sometimes strange things can be very beautiful...

Aleixa, "V", "Honey Lake"