On Friday 03 June 2005 19:29, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 22:01, John Bailo wrote:

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Suse 9.2

I put in a new DVD/RW drive. I already had a DVD/ROM drive.

Perhaps its dynamic like USB? Check your FSTAB and /media.

Here's the summary as I posted it to alt.os.linux.suse: The K3b will not recognize the write device.    Below is a screenshot of me trying to add /dev/hdd manually...it says "Device Not Found": http://www.texeme.com/nodvdrom.jpg Here is yast showing that it exists..but not recognizing the mount or the symlink: http://www.texeme.com/driveisthere.jpg Here are my /etc/fstab, mount entries and the symlink: texeme:~ # cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda3            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 1 /dev/hda1            /windows/C           ntfs       ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda2            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0 devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0 proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0 usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0 sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0 /dev/dvd             /media/dvd           subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvdrw           /media/dvdrw         subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 texeme:~ # mount /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8) /dev/hdc on /media/dvd type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8) /dev/hdd on /media/dvdrw type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) texeme:~ #                         texeme:/dev # ls -la /dev/dvdrw lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Jun  2 22:16 /dev/dvdrw -> hdd texeme:/dev #

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Update: Due to some help I received on the alt.os.linux.suse ng, I now am closer to being able to get this drive to write dvds. However, I am at the point where K3b recognizes both drives and recognizes the new drive as a writer. Yet, when I press the button for formating a dvd, it says "no rewriteable media found". There is definitely a dvd-r disk in the drive! K3b throws up this debug information: Devices ----------------------- Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWlD2 JWS5 (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/dvdrecorder [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] IDE DVD-ROM 16X 7.50 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrom [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.11.23 KDE Version: 3.3.0 QT Version: 3.3.3 Kernel: 2.6.8-24.14-default

* John Bailo [06-04-05 02:02]:

Yet, when I press the button for formating a dvd, it says "no rewriteable media found". There is definitely a dvd-r disk in the drive!

Might be that the dvd-r disk is a *writable* disk format, not a *rewritable* format and does not require "formatting". -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

John Bailo wrote:

Update:

Yet, when I press the button for formating a dvd, it says "no rewriteable media found". There is definitely a dvd-r disk in the drive!

Okay, really stupid question: have you tried a DVD+R instead of a DVD-R? Your drive data shows it as being an all-format drive, but I have a similar drive at home that for some reason just won't burn DVD-Rs, only DVD+R. This probably isn't your problem, but it's cheap to try out...