dvd-rw mounting

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After a week of reading, research and dicker around with fstab I am certain I don't get what going on with my dvd-rw. I have one dvd-rw which will not mount with a disk inserted or when trying to burn a disk with k3b. I have a dvd-rom which works flawlessly. Below is my fstab.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1
UUID=70575e29-befe-42cc-8e59-60954d4295d8 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=8544e47d-4b17-4918-a0c8-4edef402a96a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 auto users,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 auto users,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto users,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

In system settings "disk and filesystem the drives are displayed like this:

Burner LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S/media/cdrom1 auto /dev/hdc Disabled

Optical Disk IDE DVD-ROM 16X /media/cdrom0 auto /dev/hdd Disabled

Again the Rom works perfectly mounting when a disk is inserted and opens etc. The burner will not mount with the same read disk or with a blank media when attempting to burn. K3b burn button "start" is greyed out. Please HELP! Would like to burn some disks.

[SheeEttin]

Re: dvd-rw mounting

I also have a Lite-On DVD burner, and it works just fine.
Try changing the "/dev/" at the beginning of the floppy line in /etc/fstab to "/dev/fd0". This may or may not fix it, but it's a very... well, let's just say that I don't know what could happen, and probably don't want to.

If it helps, here's part of my fstab:

/dev/scd0	/media/cdrom0	auto	user,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid				0	0
/dev/hda	/media/cdrom1	auto	user,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid				0	0

The first line is my DVD-RW drive (SATA, hence the scd), the second is a CD-RW drive. (You may want to keep the exec option as it is.)

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Re: dvd-rw mounting

Well having nothing to lose I changed all my settings (except the name hdc/hdd) to mimic yours. The good news is my rom still works, but the dvdrw still will not mount with read media and k3b is still the same. My systems settings are still the same except they reflect the fd0 change. Do you know the relationship between fstab and kde's system settings how does it work? You would think that all the changes I made would effect something. I wonder if their is some change required in "disk and filesystems" but tried enabling and that just made a duplicate entry on fstab that I had to delete. Do you have more suggestions? I willing to try anything.

[SheeEttin]

Re: dvd-rw mounting

Hm. This is getting tough.
Try "ls -Al /dev/hd*". Post that here.
Also, make sure you're a member of the cdrom group.

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Re: dvd-rw mounting

james@james-desktop:~$ ls -Al /dev/hd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 2007-04-25 21:08 /dev/hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hdb
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hdb1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 66 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hdb2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 69 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hdb5
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 64 2007-04-25 21:07 /dev/hdd

I'm the only user, I see cdrom in the user group with the number 24. How do I determine if I'm a member of the cdrom group?

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Re: dvd-rw mounting

Ok figure it out I am listed as a user under cdrom group.