Anyone got linux experience?

I'm having quite a lot of trouble trying to burn CDs.
It seems I'm able to burn them just fine, everything is succesful, but I can't mount the burned CD. And I've burned a few audio cds, which actually worked on some cd players, but not on this computer, and if I try to open it in the normal cdrom, the drive will freeze.. Anyone have any clue what to do?

 

the only experience with Linux I have is not being able to do anything, and playing those games.... I miss the Linux games....

 

Burning cds is about the only thing I've not been able to get working.

 

Viewing the cd should have worked if the burn process was successful, i think you should try re-burning the cd with a different application.

 

But I was burning them from the command line with cdrecord.. All the burning apps still just use cdrecord.. And I've burned quite a few cds, always the same problem.

 

This is getting so annoying. :$ Just tried again, and again didn't work. :$
I made my fucking iso:
mkisofs -r -o shit_i_wanna_burn.iso Desktop/shit_i_wanna_burn/
Was able to mount the iso just fine.
Then I fucking burned it:
cdrecord -v -pad -data speed=4 dev=0,0,0 shit_i_wanna_burn.iso
Again, everything seemed to work fine, no errors or anything..
Then when I try to mount, in a variety of different ways, everytime I get the same shit:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
or too many mounted file systems
:$

 

I have never tried burning cds on a Linux machine, but this sounds like it involves some compatibility issues between the kernel drivers and the media; either in creating the disk or reading. The following question might help pinpoint the problem:

Will the kernel mount other CD; both commercially produced ones and CD burned by another machine?

Will another computer(like Windows) load the data on the CD?

The reason I ask is that I see two potential scenarios. One is that the kernel is invoking the wrong drivers in either the read/write sessions. The other is that the CD is not being finalized by the cdrecord, and thereby the kernel will not recognize it as a valid device. Of course I could be mistaken as I am not very experienced in this area.

You might want to try one of the GUI front ends, as it may know some tricks for invoking cdrecord so as to produce compliant media.

 

I can mount commercial cds, and ones burned on other machines fine, just not the ones I've burned on this machine.. I used x-cdroast before, but had the same problem, I thought perhaps if I did it by commandline I could find some option or something it got rwrong, but it doesn't seem so.
And I'm on redhat 9 if that makes any difference.
I guess when I have time, since this doesn't seem to be working, I'm going to switch the burner out with a slightly newer one from another comp, maybe that will work..

 

It could be kernel related but what maybe could help is the folowing
(every distro has its own thingies so it may differ a bit)

check if the cd cable is a litle lose from dvd/cd rom or conected properly to the mainboard.
check /proc/scsi/scsi for cdrom

/etc/fstab/ check for /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 no auto,unhide,user 0 0
if needed you could edit fstab

eg:
if in your fstab there is cdrom instead of scd0 you could edit fstab or create a symlink>>> /dev/cdrom symlink. (ln -sfi /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0)

changing your fstab users entry from user to users may help I think .....

Before i forget keep a copy of the original files so that you can change them back if needed.

for the moment I can't think of anything else hope this is something you can use though.....

 

Unfortunately, that output from the mount executable isn't particularly informative. You can try:

`dmesg | tail`

directly after the mount command fails, for more information. Doing a search on the output from that might help.

Also, for audio cds: even if you can't mount them from the command line (..which I can't do with some of my own audio cds), you might still be able to play them with Xine, or workbone

HTH

 

I'll try that in a second.. As far as audio cds, they won't play, and just lock up the cd drive... And they only play on some cd players too, it's strange.