From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 19:40:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2393E16A41F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:40:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47B343D46 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:40:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j9FJefBn023451; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:40:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j9FJefuO023450; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:40:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200510151940.j9FJefuO023450@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kouye@wanadoo.fr (edward) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:40:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4350282A.8050004@wanadoo.fr> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Burning DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:40:43 -0000 > > 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 >